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Protective Factors Related to Desistance in Sexual Offending: A Scoping Review
SAGE OpenAlthough 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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Effective Approaches With Young Adults: A Guide for Probation Services [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of this guide is to give probation practitioners, whether in the National Probation Service or Community Rehabilitation Companies, the tools to deliver a more effective approach to young adults.
Isabel Livingstone +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self‐legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional
Jake Phillips
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Desistance, reflexivity and relationality : a case study [PDF]
, 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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Young women in transition : from offending to desistance [PDF]
, 2012 The fact that offending behaviour is primarily the preserve of youth has challenged criminologists for the best part of a century to date and will no doubt continue to do so.
Barry, Monica
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Fear of Violent Crime and Emigration Intentions in the Northern Triangle: Current Developments
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 190-218, February 2026.Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—countries that comprise the region known as the Northern Triangle—have experienced a significant increase in emigration to the United States in recent years. A vast literature suggests that a major push factor is the persistence of criminal violence in the region.
Cristian L. Paredes, Keyla Navarrete
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Criminal desistance in Chilean women who have been deprived of liberty
Revista Criminalidad, 2019 Diverse investigations have studied the phenomenon of criminal desistance in women, evincing characteristic factors for this population. The objective of this study was to explore a predictive model of the female criminal desistance from the psychosocial
Ricardo Pérez-Luco Arenas +2 more
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How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance [PDF]
, 2012 This is an evidence summary published by the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social services in Scotland (IRISS). It summarises evidence about desistance from crime and provides a series of recommendations for criminal justice policy, systems ...
Farrall, S. +3 more
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State Capture—Institutionalized Corruption of the South African Revenue Service
Thunderbird International Business Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 123-135, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT This study provides valuable insight for scholars, practitioners, and government officials on how a local office of a respected international consulting firm became associated with allegations of illicit influence and state capture. The article presents how political and business leaders used a government agency, the South African Revenue ...
Jennifer H. Heckel, Prescott C. Ensign
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Exploring how employment schemes for young offenders aid desistance from crime
Probation Journal, 2020 Criminological literature investigating the association between employment and desistance presents largely mixed findings. This article uses the Skill Mill employment scheme for young offenders as a case study to advance our understanding of how ...
R. Oswald
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