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The literature on desistance from crime shows that desisters often engage in a process of rebiographing, crafting life stories–or “redemption scripts”–that make sense of their move away from crime.
Death, Jodi +2 more
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ABSTRACT Restorative justice (RJ) is associated with offenders’ movement away from crime and victim recovery. However, little is known about the circumstances under which RJ can simultaneously achieve the dual objectives. Using secondary data from the South Australian Juvenile Justice study, this research examines how RJ conferencing shapes short‐term ...
Masahiro Suzuki
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The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the trajectories of people experiencing recovery from addiction and desistance from crime.
Hall, Lauren
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Resumo O texto explora o conceito da desistência criminal, cada vez mais empregado na literatura criminológica contemporânea, a discutir o tema da estabilidade e da mudança comportamental a partir de novas bases teóricas.
Marcos Rolim
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ABSTRACT Most incarcerated women have histories of trauma, victimisation, poor mental health, and disadvantage, and most also have mothering roles. Their support needs differ markedly from those of incarcerated men, yet most correctional settings are designed for men.
Susan Dennison +7 more
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Protective Factors Related to Desistance in Sexual Offending: A Scoping Review
Although most offenders who have committed a sex crime will not reoffend, an excessive amount of attention has been paid to the process that leads a minority to commit a new offense.
Etienne Garant, Frédéric Ouellet
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Making Good to Making Space: Lived Experience and the Convict Criminology Tradition
ABSTRACT Making Good’s 25th anniversary offers an opportunity to revisit one of criminology's most consequential texts through the lens of lived experience scholarship and convict criminology. Few works have done more to transform the epistemic landscape.
Ed Schreeche‐Powell
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ABSTRACT Drawing on qualitative data among a sample of people leaving prison in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article explores how post‐prison transitional housing impacts desistance from crime and motivation to desist. While transitional housing is designed to support reintegration, our findings reveal that it can also produce unintended impacts—or ...
Alice Mills +2 more
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Criminal careers in transition: The social context of desistance from crime
This book reports on the latest sweep of a longitudinal research project into the lives of a group of offenders and ex-offenders originally interviewed in 1997.
Calverley, Adam +3 more
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Expanding desistance theories through the integration of offender strategies
Existing theories of desistance can be loosely divided into two perspectives: socio-situational theories identify how life-course events and the social environment facilitate desistance, while subjective theories focus on individual differences in ...
Schaefer, Lacey, Williams, Gemma C
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