Ryan D. Schroeder

TL;DR: In this article, a symbolic interactionist perspective on the emotions is presented that highlights their social character, forges links to cognitive processes, and suggests ways in which emotions influence long-term patterns of criminal involvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the role of spirituality and religious participation as influences on adult patterns of criminal involvement (N= 152) and found no significant association between these indices of religiosity and the likelihood of evidencing a pattern of sustained desistance.

TL;DR: Findings are supportive of general strain theory, as students who experience academic strain report higher levels of depression, the authors' measure of negative affect, and students who report higherlevels of depression are more likely to report the non-medical use of prescription stimulants.

TL;DR: This article investigated the role of drug use on desistance processes in criminal offending and found that drug use and its lifestyle concomitants bring together a host of distinctive social dynamics that compromise multiple life domains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of religion and spirituality in men living in a halfway house in their desistance efforts from deviance from crime, and found that religion/spirituality is primarily used by these men currently undergoing behavioral change as a form of emotional comfort, a distraction from current stressors, and as factor demarcating the transition from deviant to a more conventional life.