Desistance Theory and Forensic Practice

Day, Andrew; Halsey, Mark

doi:10.1002/9781119166504.ch1

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“…We are also aware of related work in other areas (e.g., clinical governance and There is, of course, also a substantial criminological literature to draw upon that sits alongside any efforts to implement TIP in youth justice. This includes work on the understanding and measuring the process of desistance from crime which draws attention to the importance of identity change in the desistance journey (Day and Halsey, 2022). This appears particularly relevant to understanding the changes to identity that often occur during the developmental period of adolescence.…”

Section: An Outcomes Focus In Youth Justicementioning

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The effectiveness of trauma-informed youth justice: a discussion and review

Day,

Malvaso,

Boyd

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Youth justice services around the world are under increasing pressure to find new and more effective ways of working with young people. One way forward is to implement a more compassionate approach to service delivery that embraces the idea of ‘trauma-informed practice’. And yet, substantial variation has been observed in how a trauma-informed approach has been defined and understood by practitioners, with idiosyncratic implementation evident across different systems and only limited evidence that this results in reductions in subsequent re-offending. In this paper we argue that the success of efforts to work in more trauma-informed ways cannot be judged using recidivism data alone and that there is a need to identify key indicators of the effectiveness of any trauma- informed approach. We present the case for implementing trauma-informed youth justice and outline key features of the approach. We then present a logic model that articulates key components and identifies short- and longer-term outcomes that can be measured to assess the overall performance of a service. The article concludes with a discussion of the current evidential status of trauma-informed youth justice, identifying areas of current strength and those where further work is needed to develop the evidence base, including the need to demonstrate the hypothesized association between short-term trauma-informed practice outcomes and the longer-term goal of preventing re-offending.

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Section: An Outcomes Focus In Youth Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

The effectiveness of trauma-informed youth justice: a discussion and review

Day,

Malvaso,

Boyd

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Mapping desistance research: a systematic quantitative literature review from 2011 to 2020

Sagara,

Suzuki,

Hashiba

et al. 2024

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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A path to tertiary desistance: A qualitative metasynthesis

Suzuki,

Sagara,

Yamawaki

et al. 2024

Punishment & Society

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The emergence of tertiary desistance underscores the need to go beyond the current focus on behavioral and identity/cognitive transformation in desistance research and take into account the social context that impacts desisters. This study aims to explore the experiences of people with a criminal history during the tertiary desistance phase by conducting a qualitative metasynthesis. We conducted literature searches across seven databases in January 2023: CINAHL, MEDLINE, ProQuest, PubMed, PsychINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science. After screening and assessing the quality of identified qualitative studies on tertiary desistance, we selected 13 relevant studies. Our synthesis indicates that desisters commonly encounter numerous challenges due to the stigma associated with their past criminal activities, which may result in feelings of insecurity, a negative self-image, and a reluctance to socialize with others. However, once desisters are recognized and trusted by significant others and society, they utilize the recognition and trust to overcome the stigma and experience a positive change in their sense of belonging. Given that tertiary desistance is an interactive process involving both people with a criminal history and society, it falls upon society to afford them a second chance at rehabilitation and reintegration.

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Desistance Theory and Forensic Practice

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

The effectiveness of trauma-informed youth justice: a discussion and review

The effectiveness of trauma-informed youth justice: a discussion and review

Mapping desistance research: a systematic quantitative literature review from 2011 to 2020

A path to tertiary desistance: A qualitative metasynthesis

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