Natti Ronel

TL;DR: The family relationships of adolescents brought up by an addicted parent were studied in a qualitative research and indicate a definition, the first of its kind, of subjective risk and protective factors representing subjective perceptions of the reality of the lives of the participants.

TL;DR: Positive criminology refers to a focus on individuals’ encounters with forces and influences that are experienced as positive, which distance them from deviance and crime, whether by means of formal and informal therapy programs and interventions, such as self-help groups.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study examines the impact of a personal encounter with perceived goodness, as represented by volunteers who are perceived as altruistic by those they help, focusing on the encounter between at-risk street youths and lay volunteers in a mobile outreach service.

TL;DR: The experience of compulsive eating and recovery, as perceived by women members of the self-help organization Overeaters Anonymous (OA), was qualitatively studied by examining the worldview transformation of the members as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The concept of positive criminology is an innovative concept that challenges the common preoccupation with negative elements, by placing emphasis on human encounters and forces of inclusion that are experienced positively by target individuals and that can promote crime desistance as discussed by the authors.