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Effective Interventions in the Lives of Criminal Offenders

Effective Interventions in the Lives of Criminal Offenders

Humphrey, John A.
Cordella, Peter

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CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 149395363X
ISBN13: 9781493953639
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 149
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 turning points (or interventions) across the life course is vital to assessing their impact on criminal behavior. Three sources of interventions in criminal careers are identified in the literature: structural location, human agency and situated choice. Structural location refers to the social place occupied by an individual in the social structure: including marital and occupational status, education and income, and so on. Human agency means the active will of an individual to change his or her behavior, that is, the decision to stop engaging in criminal activities. In addition, situated choice coordinates the offender's willingness to end a life of crime with the social structural supports that increase the odds of criminal desistance.

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