Desistance: A Utopian Perspective

A Life Course Perspective on Spirituality and Desistance from Crime

Spirituality has become a part of many drug and alcohol treatment strategies, and faithbased programming is also common within prison settings. Yet research on religion and crime linkages has often relied on general youth or adult samples, or included a short time line for gauging positive effects. Life course researchers focused on serious delinquents, in turn, have often emphasized other fact...

Women, resettlement and desistance

With the numbers of women imprisoned increasing across Western jurisdictions over the last 15 or so years, so too have the numbers of women returning to the community following a period in custody. Despite increasing policy attention in the UK and elsewhere to prisoner resettlement, women’s experiences on release from prison have received limited empirical and policy attention. Drawing upon int...

Desistance From Intimate Partner Violence

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an international issue that social and criminal justice workers will encounter regularly. It has been identified that men can, and do stop using, or desist from, IPV although it is unclear how this process of change develops. This article introduces a conceptual model to outline how the process of desistance evolves and what it encompasses. Using thematic anal...

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Desistance : Motherhood as a Possible Exit Strategy ?

Title of Document: FEMALE GANG MEMBERS AND DESISTANCE: MOTHERHOOD AS A POSSIBLE EXIT STRATEGY? A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FLEISHER AND KRIENERT (2004) Jennifer Anne Varriale, Master of Arts, 2006 Directed By: Professor Shawn Bushway, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice This study sought to evaluate differential gang processes as they vary by gender through a quantitative analysis of ...