The Internal Narrative of Desistance

Recent desistance research has emphasized the importance of shifts in offenders' identities to explain cessation from crime. Explanatory weight is given to how the agent reflects and acts upon relevant social circumstances rather than seeing desistance as the product of greater control exerted...

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Autor principal: Vaughan, Barry (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2007
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 2007, Volumen: 47, Número: 3, Páginas: 390-404
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Palabras clave:
Kriminelle Karriere
Identität
Rollenübernahme
Selbstbewertung
Neutralisierungstechnik
Karrieretäter
Abbruch
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Sumario:Recent desistance research has emphasized the importance of shifts in offenders' identities to explain cessation from crime. Explanatory weight is given to how the agent reflects and acts upon relevant social circumstances rather than seeing desistance as the product of greater control exerted by the obligations of new roles. This kind of self-reflexivity is achieved through an internal moral conversation that is often couched in terms of agents' ultimate concerns and their relationship with others. In so doing, desisters fashion a narrative identity, which acknowledges yet disclaims past actions and commits them to an ideal future self
ISSN:0007-0955