RT Article
T1 Quantified Desistance: A Scoping Review of Conventions in the Scientific Literature
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 10
SP 1794
OP 1818
A1 Leclair, Marichelle
A2 Raiche, Ann-Pierre
A2 Latulippe, Marjolie
A2 Lepage-Richer, Théo
A2 Charette, Yanick
A2 Roy, Laurence
A2 Crocker, Anne
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839616466
AB This paper adopts a conventionalist approach to shed light on the measurement and reification problems that underlie the quantification of desistance from crime in the scientific literature. Analysis of 100 papers spanning three decades indicates that approaches based on theoretical classification have recently lost ground in favor of more sophisticated techniques aimed at empirically identifying subgroups. These techniques convey the impression of objectiveness among statistics users and consumers and, as a result, the classification ?desisters? and ?persisters? are increasingly reified. Findings suggest that the quantification of desistance is intimately linked to the maintenance of a classification system that constitutes delinquency as a stable category and contributes to ?making? up new kinds of people over which institutions can legitimately intervene.
K1 Crime Statistics
K1 Desistance
K1 Governance
K1 Measurement
DO 10.1177/00111287211041525