Shadd Maruna

TL;DR: Maruna as discussed by the authors argues that to truly understand offenders, we must understand the stories that they tell - and that in turn this story-making process has the capacity to transform lives, and provides a fascinating narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who, by all statistical measures, should have continued on the criminal path but instead have created lives of productivity and purpose.

TL;DR: Neutralization theory, though a popular framework for understanding deviant behavior, remains badly underdeveloped as mentioned in this paper, and few attempts have been made to connect it to narrative and sociocognitive research in psychology and related fields.

TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors argue that intervention with offenders is not simply a matter of implementing the best therapeutic technology and leaving political and social debate to politicians and policy-makers, but that rehabilitation is a value-laden process involving a delicate balance of the needs and desires of clinicians, clients, the State and the public.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective study of 130 male property offenders, interviewed in the 1990s (the Oxford Recidivism Study), and followed up 10 years later, showed that subjective states measured before release have a direct effect on recidivism as well as indirect effects through their impact on social circumstances experienced after release from prison.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the open exploration of contextual risk factors leading to offending can help in the identification of criminogenic factors as well as strengthen the therapeutic experience.