Effective Interventions in the Lives of Criminal Offenders
This book provides the most current thinking on effective interventions in the lives of criminal offenders. Original articles by leading criminologists provide in-depth analyses of “turning points” in the desistance process experienced by criminal offenders. An understanding of the sources of turnin...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8930-6 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Structural Location
- Marriage as an Intervention across the Life Course
- Patterns of Unemployment and Desistance from Crime
- Part 2: Situational Context
- Criminal Victimization and Criminal Desistance
- Intervetions in Gang-Related Criminal Activity
- Interventions among Ex-Convicts
- Part 3: Human Agency
- Identity Theory and Criminal Desistance
- Cognitive Transformation and Changes in Criminal Behavior
- The Internal Narrative of Desistance
- Part 4: Cross-Cultural Interventions
- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Criminal Interventions
- The Effectiveness of Marriage as an Intervention in the Netherlands
- Work and Criminal Desistance in a Nordic Welfare State
- Epilogue: Policy Implications and Research Recommendations. .