Counterblast: a Copernican correction for community sentences?
In this article, the author discusses the emergence and development of desistance research, which aims to examine the social and personal processes by which persistent offenders desist from crime, and argues that its implications for practice are far-reaching. The article looks at the main perspecti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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The Howard journal of criminal justice
Year: 2012 |
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| Summary: | In this article, the author discusses the emergence and development of desistance research, which aims to examine the social and personal processes by which persistent offenders desist from crime, and argues that its implications for practice are far-reaching. The article looks at the main perspectives in desistance research, the main themes identified in desistance studies in the last 20 or 30 years, and reactions to desistance research. The author concludes that reconfiguration would offer the best prospects of progressive development of community sentences, and that a desistance perspective is one which poses questions about what reintegration in communities actually means, and what might permit and obstruct it |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2311 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00699.x |