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Desistance by design : offenders' reflections on criminal justice theory, policy and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article highlights the views and advice of offenders in Scotland about what helps and hinders young people generally in the process of desistance, why interventions may or may not encourage desistance and what criminal justice and other agencies can
Barry, Monica
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Giving up crime: directions for policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Describes eight principles for supporting desistance in criminal ...
McNeill, F., Weaver, B.
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Desistance, reflexivity and relationality : a case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper presents the analysis of a single life-story drawn from a larger study examining theindividual, relational and structural contributions to the desistance process.
Weaver, Beth
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The Educative Role of Social Reintegration Programs on Desistance from Crime [PDF]

open access: yesResearch and Education, 2022
Social reintegration programs carried out within probation services are an important factor contributing to desistance from crime. A large number of people in the records of these services have the obligation to participate in at least one such program ...
Laura-Julia Koblicska
doaj  

Drug treatment and desistance from crime [PDF]

open access: yes
This project examined desistance from crime for drug-using offenders, and explored the apparent disjuncture between what is known about desistance from crime and the work that is done with offenders in the criminal justice system.
Robinson, Garreth
core   +3 more sources

Early Narratives of Desistance from Crime in Different Prison Regimes

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2019
Priority given to investigating the onset and maintenance of criminal behavior in the past is currently giving way to a new focus on the process of criminal desistance.
Ana M. Martín   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental Health in Young Detainees Predicts Perpetration of and Desistance From Serious, Violent and Chronic Offending

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Mental health problems are common among young offenders but their role in predicting criminal recidivism is still not clear. Early identification and treatment of young offenders at risk of serious, violent, and chronic (SVC) offending is of major ...
Steffen Barra   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Criminal Desistance Narratives of Young People in the West of Scotland: Understanding Spirituality and Criminogenic Constraints

open access: yesReligions, 2018
In our qualitative study of urban youth living in the West of Scotland, we argue that religion and spirituality give personal sustenance and hope from which a process of desistance can emerge. Religious worship offers a ‘site’ for undermining reoffending
Chris Holligan, Robert McLean
doaj   +1 more source

Set up to fail: The politics, mechanisms, and effects of mass incarceration

open access: yesLatin American Law Review, 2021
The rise of the citizen security paradigm has complemented, rather than curtailed, authoritarian legacies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Notably, criminal justice and law enforcement policies continue to feed a wave of mass incarceration, evidenced
Adrian Bergmann, Rafael Gude
doaj   +1 more source

Neuroscience findings on brain maturation – arguments for the exclusive criminal liability of young people

open access: yesKriminologijos studijos, 2020
Taking together all the evidence on the aetiology, development and differential processes of delinquent behaviour from childhood to adulthood, we dispose of important new evidence from the neurosciences, which, compared to traditional criminological ...
Frieder Dünkel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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