Understanding Desistance from Crime
John H. Laub,Robert J. Sampson +1 more
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The study of desistance from crime is hampered by definitional, measurement, and theoretical incoherence as mentioned in this paper, and a unifying framework can distinguish termination of offending from the process of desistanc...Abstract:
The study of desistance from crime is hampered by definitional, measurement, and theoretical incoherence. A unifying framework can distinguish termination of offending from the process of desistanc...read more
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Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation
TL;DR: In this paper, a symbolic interactionist perspective on desistance is developed as a counterpoint to Sampson and Laub's theory of informal social control, and life history narratives are used to illustrate the perspective.
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The Criminal Career Paradigm
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Transitions from Prison to Community: Understanding Individual Pathways
Christy A. Visher,Jeremy Travis +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the problem of prisoner reentry, which is the process of leaving prison and returning to free society, and focus solely on recidivism and ignore the reality that recidivity is directly affected by post-prison reintegration and adjustment, which, in turn, depends on four sets of factors: personal and situational characteri...
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Continuities and discontinuities in psychopathology between childhood and adult life.
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Does marriage reduce crime? a counterfactual approach to within‐individual causal effects*
TL;DR: In this paper, a counterfactual life-course approach that applies inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) to yearly longitudinal data on marriage, crime, and shared covariates in a sample of 500 high-risk boys followed prospectively from adolescence to age 32.
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