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Probation, social context and desistance: Retracing the relationship:
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In this paper, the authors report on the findings of a small-scale Scottish study which drew on participant perspectives to explore the attention given to probationers' social contexts in supporting desistance.Abstract:
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A desistance paradigm for offender management
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that a different but equally relevant form of empirical evidence, derived from desistance studies, suggests a need to re-evaluate these earlier paradigms for probation practice.
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Four forms of ‘offender’ rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that debates about psychological rehabilitation have been hampered by a failure to engage fully with debates about at least three other forms of rehabilitation (legal, moral, and social) that emerge as being equally important in the process of desistance from crime.
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The end of an era.
TL;DR: The Post Office at 20 Sandygate Road, Crosspool closed for the last time on the 24th November 2004 and the business transferred to the Spar Supermarket where it opened with entirely new staff on the 27th November.
How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance
TL;DR: In this paper, an evidence summary published by the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social services in Scotland (IRISS) summarises evidence about desistance from crime and provides a series of recommendations for criminal justice policy, systems and practice.
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Prisoners' families and offender management: Mobilizing social capital:
Alice Mills,Helen Codd +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the potential role of family support in reducing recidivism in prisoners' families is explored, as the link between family support and reduced recidivitis is increasingly recognized.
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Restorative Justice: Assessing Optimistic and Pessimistic Accounts
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of optimistic propositions and pessimistic claims about restorative justice by contemplating the global diversity of its practice are made. Examination of both the optimistic and the pessimistic propositions sheds light on prospects for Restorative justice, and the optimistic propositions may be more useful for preventing crime in a normatively acceptable way than existing criminal law jurisprudence and explanatory theory.
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What works
TL;DR: The primary question behind all user research in games is: How well does the game reflect the designer’s original intent when users play it, and some of the tried-and-true methods of user research are well suited to this problem.
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Rethinking What Works with Offenders: Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime
TL;DR: Christine Knott (Chief Officer, Greater Manchester Probation Area) as mentioned in this paper introduced the agenda of desistance from crime in the context of social context, motivation, change and probation supervision.
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Desistance from Offending: Experiences of Probation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make connections between two different research fields: the What Works? literature on the effectiveness of community programmes in bringing about a reduction in reoffending; and, from the criminal careers literature, the discussion of the wider social processes by which people themselves come to stop offending.