Desistance and restorative justice: it’s now or never

Maruna, Shadd

doi:10.1080/20504721.2016.1243853

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“…The justice system is not inherently harmful; assistance from parole/probation officers who provide access to and guidance on how to utilize resources (treatment, employment, family) can indirectly support the desistance process (Farrall et al 2014, Healy 2010, McCulloch 2005 and nudge individuals in conventional directions ; see also Thaler & Sunstein 2008). Third, as the justice landscape shifts from an individual-centric model in which crime (and desistance) is the sole responsibility of the individual (Hagan 2012) to one that recognizes the stark structural realities faced by offenders, efforts to marry desistance and restorative justice are beginning to take shape (e.g., Maruna 2016).…”

Section: Linking Theory and Research With Policy And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Bersani

Doherty

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

127

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After decades of relative obscurity, research on desistance from offending has experienced an exponential, and much warranted, escalation in attention. This precipitous growth is motivated by the timely alignment of theory, data, and method that characterized the opening of the twenty-first century. Despite the growth of the field, fundamental questions remain. This chapter provides a focused review of key twenty-first-century theoretical and methodological developments on desistance as well as a pointed discussion of critical issues. After outlining the current definitions and longitudinal trends of desistance, we discuss contemporary theories and the studies that inform these theories. We use an organizational schema situating theories in terms of the primacy with which they place structural opportunities or subjective motivations in their explanations of the transition away from offending. We conclude by presenting avenues for advancing research in the areas of definitions, theoretical testing, and bridging the research-policy divide.

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Section: Linking Theory and Research With Policy And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Bersani

Doherty

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

127

113

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“…Equally important, the research on peer mentoring shows significant prosocial benefits for justiceinvolved youth participating in prosocial peer groups (Butts, Bazemore & Meroe, 2010). Although the current models of assistance for justice-involved youth primarily focus on strategies to reduce deviant behaviour and risk exposure, a small number of peer mentoring programmes have also integrated practices that support the reparative needs and secondary desistance-oriented changes with justiceinvolved youth and adults (Austria & Peterson, 2017;Maruna 2016).…”

Section: Peer Mentoring and Prosocial Risksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The use of formal mentoring relationships as an effective intervention for addressing the needs of high-risk youth has significantly grown across the United States and the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) over the last two decades. More recently, a limited body of research has confirmed that peer mentoring with adults who were formerly incarcerated can reduce recidivism, enhance the prosocial protective factors of justice-involved youth and provide crucial restorative service contributions to under-resourced communities (Austria & Peterson, 2017;Douglas & Delgado, 2014;Maruna, 2016;Prince's Trust, 2008). However, outside of measuring reductions in recidivism, studies reporting on outcomes with adult mentors who were formerly incarcerated are minimal.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Peer mentoring justice-involved youth: a training model to promote secondary desistance and restorative justice among mentors

Lopez-Humphreys¹,

Teater²

2018

The International Journal Of Restorative Justice

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This article introduces a mentoring programme for justice-involved youth that utilises the unique and often overlooked resources offered by adults with a history of incarceration, and the innovative training model that aims to promote secondary desistance and restorative justice among the mentors. An examination of the generative role of peer mentoring and its overlap with restorative justice as a healing process that provides opportunities for offenders to make indirect amends that contribute to the social rehabilitation of their communities is presented. An overview of the history and anticipated aims of mentoring programmes for justice-involved youth is provided, followed by a discussion of the importance of secondary desistance in peer mentoring programmes and a review of the elements, conceptual underpinnings and anticipated benefits of the training programme for the mentors. The training programme is argued to offer approaches that support the primary and secondary desistance-orientated changes and the reparative work needed within the mentor.

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“…It is, for restorative justice scholars, 'now or never' (see Shadd Maruna's (2016) Editorial in RJIJ 4(3)). This all makes the mission of ongoing research, debate and reflection so crucial (see e.g.…”

Section: A Strong Journal To Support the Sustainable Development Of Rmentioning

confidence: 99%