Getting out of the life: Crime desistance by female street offenders

Sommers, Ira; Baskin, Deborah R.; Fagan, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/01639625.1994.9967964

Cited by 114 publications

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“…The persistent oppression of inequality and consequential nature of minor setbacks that severely hinder the capacity of subjective factors to foster desistance are revealed in stark detail (Fader 2013, Giordano 2010, Leverentz 2014, Soyer 2016. Addiction and trauma histories are pronounced among former female prisoners, further complicating their journey to desistance (Leverentz 2014, Sommers et al 2004, Stone 2015. Harris (2011) found that the work to distance oneself from a criminal identity and one's optimism for a conventional future self is often derailed by a lack of structural supports.…”

Section: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Desistance From Offending In the Twementioning

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Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Bersani

Doherty

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

126

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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: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Desistance From Offending In the Twementioning

confidence: 99%

Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Bersani

Doherty

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

126

113

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“…Research on this topic therefore has some similarity to sailing in uncharted waters. Other desistance studies involve, in the main, White and Black males or females with a background of persistent criminal offending (Baskin & Robins, 1998, Hughes, 1998Maruna, 2001;Shover, 1998;Sommers, Baskin & Fagan, 1994). Three articles were located for Aboriginal individuals.…”

Section: Hundleby Gfellner Racinementioning

confidence: 99%

Desistance and Identity Change among Aboriginal Females

2007

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“…While their data were originally collected in the mid 1900s, empirical work with more contemporary data sets reinforce their conclusions (Horney, Osgood, andMarshall 1995, Piquero, Brame, Mazerolle, andHaapanen 2002). Refinements to the original life course model proposed by Sampson and Laub (Laub and Samspon 2003), along with other recent work (Giordano, Cernkovich, and Rudolph 2002;Maruna 2004;Rumgay 2004;Sommers, Baskin, and Fagan 1994), suggests that personal agency also plays a central role in initiating the behavioral changes associated with adult desistance.…”

Section: Gender and Desistancementioning

confidence: 83%

“…Invoking personal agency can help offenders access the more substantive social capital and related social controls implicated in behavioral change. Sommers et al (1994) make a similar argument, linking the cognitive decision to stop offending with actual behavioral change and, importantly, changes in offender's social networks. Indeed, Laub and Sampson's (2003) recent update to Crime in the Making integrates personal agency into their theory.…”

Section: Gender and Desistancementioning

confidence: 96%