Promoting relational and strengths-based approaches to illustrating pathways to desistance and recovery

Best, David; Colman, Charlotte

doi:10.4324/9781315227221-16

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“…It is often a characteristic of successful desistance that changes in social networks occurs (Boman and Mowen, 2017). Partners showed an awareness of this; Rochelle discussed how this transitional period placed further emphasis on the role of the relationship to provide support and capital in several areas:“Things have gone from strength to strength.…”

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“…During the desistance process, it is well understood that social network shifts often occur (Giordano et al, 2002; Weaver, 2012). Although such shifts are often ultimately beneficial to the desistance process (Boman and Mowen, 2017), transitioning social networks and isolation because of stigma can leave women as the sole support system for their desisting partner – placing pressure on their emotional, social, and physical resources. Guilt was a particular emotion associated with the labour of supporting a desister for the women interviewed; as the women continued to live their lives whilst their partners were in prison, they felt conscious of information they shared with their partner over the phone, sparking jealousy.…”

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“…Debates concerning its application, its measurement and its parameters continue, but overall desistance is most helpfully regarded as a hopeful process, which promotes positive outcomes for individuals, communities and, somewhat more cynically, the State. In practice, desistance is best supported through strengths-based mechanisms: through creating scaffolding for positive relationships, job opportunities, and by enhancing existing skills and strengths to foster the pro-social resources needed to live a crime-free life (Best and Colman, 2020).…”

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The gendered weight of desistance and understanding the ‘love of a good woman’: Desistance emotional work (DEW)

Hall

Harris

2022

Probation Journal

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Despite increasing academic focus on intimate relationships as positive influences on desistance, research has yet to examine the experience and impact of support provision for women who are intimate partners of desisters. This exploratory study draws on six in-depth interviews with partners of desisters to elucidate their experiences of support provision and the impact of desistance. This paper finds that women provide resources to their desisting partners, and that identities and agency can be strained through this provision. The desistance process entails an investment of emotional work and capital from intimate partners which is conceptualised in this paper as Desistance Emotional Work (DEW). Desistance research has not yet acknowledged the support needs of women who invest in their partner’s desistance, and so DEW should be considered further both theoretically and in policy and practice.

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The gendered weight of desistance and understanding the ‘love of a good woman’: Desistance emotional work (DEW)

Hall

Harris

2022

Probation Journal

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“…Expecting the former to affect cognitive transformations related to criminogenic thinking alone is not the most adequate theory, nor is it likely to offer the most sound basis for developing programs that will over the long haul support sustained behavior change. Positive developments include “strength‐based approaches” that not only focus on upbeat themes, but recognize the need for longer term community support, including mentoring from “experienced peers” (successful desisters) and other forms of tangible capital that are needed to buttress the individual's good intentions (Best & Colman, 2020 ).…”

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“…Within the context of desistance work, episodic derailments from a generally positive turn are often conceptualized as an expected feature of the process of making changes, rather than as a complete failure experience (Bushway & Uggen, 2021 ). These dynamics have also been amply demonstrated in studies of recovery from substance use, and in recent attempts to integrate these somewhat distinct research traditions (Best & Colman, 2020 ). These lines of inquiry thus represent a departure from recidivism studies that have historically focused on the odds of committing a new offense after official justice system contact, or examined timing to the next offense (Bersani & Doherty, 2018 ).…”

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Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance

Giordano

2022

Criminology & Public Policy

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This article explores the role of cognitive transformations in the process of desistance from crime. Based on our own and others’ subsequent research, clearly, some aspects of our initial theorizing warrant revisiting and adjustment. The discussion describes changes to ideas about the sequencing of various types of cognitive shifts, suggests the importance of emotional processes in tandem with changes in perspective, and highlights the need to move out of the comfort zone of crime itself when thinking about redefinitions that support desistance. Yet, a consistent notion remains that social and broader structural factors are deeply implicated—directly and indirectly—in all aspects of the change process. This includes the important area of “derailments” from a pattern of forward progress, where additional processual research is needed. The discussion concludes with the argument that individualistic policies and programs centered on cognitive deficits requiring correction are likely to be limited in their effectiveness.

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Substance use treatment completion and criminal justice system contact in Chile: A retrospective, linked data cohort study

Mateo Pinones,

González‐Santa Cruz,

Castillo‐Carniglia

et al. 2024

Addiction

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Background and aimsSubstance use treatment (SUT) has shown to be effective in reducing self‐reported offending; however, the association between SUT completion and criminal justice system (CJS) contact has been underexplored, especially in Latin America. This study aimed to estimate the association between SUT completion status and (1) any subsequent CJS contact and (2) CJS contact leading to imprisonment, at 1, 3 and 5 years post‐discharge, in Chile.DesignRetrospective cohort study using multivariable survival analysis based on linked administrative data from 2010 to 2019.SettingThis study took place in Chile, where SUT is available at no cost through Chile's publicly funded health‐care, and is provided in outpatient and inpatient modalities in public and private centres.ParticipantsA total of 70 854 individuals received their first SUT from 2010 to 2019. They were mainly males (76.3%), and their main substance used at admission was cocaine paste (39.2%).MeasurementsSUT completion status included completion, late dropout (≥ 3 months) and early dropout (< 3 months). Outcomes were (1) any CJS contact and (2) CJS contact leading to imprisonment after baseline treatment. We estimated the association between treatment completion and CJS contact through flexible parametric Royston−Parmar models while adjusting for several covariates.FindingsThose who completed SUT (27.2%) were less likely to have any CJS contact at 5 years post‐SUT compared with those who dropped out late [with a gap of −9.5%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = −8.7, −10.3] and early (−11.2%, 95% CI = −10.1, −12.3). Also, those who completed SUT were less likely to have CJS contact leading to imprisonment at 5 years post‐SUT compared with those who dropped out late (−2.6%, 95% CI = −2.2, −3.1) and early (−4.0%, 95% CI = −3.3, −4.6). These differences were also observed at 1 and 3 years post‐SUT for each outcome.ConclusionsIn Chile, completion of substance use treatment appears to be associated with lower probabilities of both any criminal justice system contact and contact leading to imprisonment.

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Promoting relational and strengths-based approaches to illustrating pathways to desistance and recovery

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The gendered weight of desistance and understanding the ‘love of a good woman’: Desistance emotional work (DEW)

The gendered weight of desistance and understanding the ‘love of a good woman’: Desistance emotional work (DEW)

Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance

Substance use treatment completion and criminal justice system contact in Chile: A retrospective, linked data cohort study

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