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The Educative Role of Social Reintegration Programs on Desistance from Crime [PDF]

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

Frontiers 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, Daniel Turner, Petra Retz-Junginger, Priscilla Gregorio Hertz, Michael Rösler, Wolfgang Retz, Wolfgang Retz   +6 more
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Desistance from Sexual Offending: Do the Mainstream Theories Apply? [PDF]

, 2016
The literature on desistance from crime has become well established in recent years with strong bodies of evidence supporting the role of factors such as employment, relationships and identity change in this process.
Farmer, Mark, Maruna, Shadd, McAlinden, Anne-Marie   +2 more
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Set up to fail: The politics, mechanisms, and effects of mass incarceration

Latin 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
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Four forms of 'offender' rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective [PDF]

, 2012
This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond contemporary ‘paradigm conflicts’.
Andrews, Andrews, Andrews, Bauman, Bazemore, Beccaria, Bonta, Bottoms, Bottoms, Burnett, Crewe, Cullen, Duff, Farrall, Farrall, Farrall, Farrall, Farrall, Farrington, Foucault, Freiberg, Garland, Garland, Giordano, Hollin, Hough, Johnstone, Kendall, Laws, Lemert, Lewis, Maguire, Mann, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, Maruna, McCulloch, McCulloch, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, McNeill, Paternoster, Polaschek, Porporino, Pratt, Raynor, Raynor, Robinson, Robinson, Robinson, Rose, Rotman, Scottish Prisons Commission, Sellin, Sennett, Stokes, Uggen, Van Zyl Smit, Ward, Ward, Ward, Ward, Ward, Weaver, Weaver, Zedner   +76 more
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Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: a quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime

Psychology, Crime & Law, 2021
Previous studies suggest that the process of becoming desistant from crime is accompanied by a shift from criminal to law-abiding identity and by the development of self-efficacy for law-abiding behavior.
Verena A. Oberlader, R. Banse, S. Beier, Alexander F. Schmidt   +3 more
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Desistance from crime and probation supervision: Comparing experiences of English and French probationers

Probation Journal, 2021
This research compares how English and French desisters experience and perceive probation supervision. In this qualitative study, desisters of both countries were interviewed to collect narratives of change within the context of punishment in the ...
R. Fernando
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Neuroscience findings on brain maturation – arguments for the exclusive criminal liability of young people

Kriminologijos 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, Bernd Geng , Daniel Passow , Gintautas Sakalauskas   +3 more
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Social Practices or Functional Skills? Rehabilitation or Rights? An Analysis of Scottish Prison Learning Contracts

Encyclopaideia, 2019
This paper critically examines some of the research arising from prison contexts internationally, questioning the notion that adult learning might serve the purpose of rehabilitation or encouraging desistance from crime. These discussions are utilised to
Sarah Galloway
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Gangs, Guns, and Drugs: Recidivism among Serious, Young Offenders [PDF]

, 2007
The primary goal of this study is to understand the factors that best explain recidivism among a sample of 322 young men aged 17 to 24 years released from prison in a Midwestern state.
Adams, Akers, Anderson, Battin-Pearson, Benda, Blumstein, Braga, Bushway, Chaiken, Clemmer, Coleman, Cook, Cook, Cork, Cox, Decker, Decker, Decker, DeJong, Esbensen, Esbensen, Fagan, Fagan, Flannery, Fleisher, Fowler, Gendreau, Giordano, Glaze, Gottfredson, Griffin, Griffin, Hagan, Hariston, Harrison, Hirschi, Holtfreter, Huebner, Huebner, Huff, Hughes, Kennedy, Klein, Kubrin, Langan, Lattimore, Lattimore, Laub, Laub, Lizotte, Loeber, Lynch, Maltz, Maruna, Maruna, Matsueda, McDevitt, McGarrell, Mumola, Nurse, Olson, Pager, Papachristos, Perkins, Petersilia, Rosenfeld, Sampson, Sampson, Sheley, Shover, Singer, Spohn, Sykes, Uggen, Visher, Visher, Wacquant, Warr, Western, Western, Wintemute, Wright, Wright, Zamble   +83 more
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