Prosocial Attitudes of Juvenile Males as Predictors of Desistance Post-Release

Book Review: Facilitating desistance from aggression and crime. Theory, research, and strength-based practices

“…For instance, the most recent attempt at presenting the state of desistance research has mainly been the work of sociology-informed criminologists (Shapland et al, 2016). Nonetheless, after pioneers such as Shadd Maruna (2001), psychology-informed desistance research has recently picked up and raised issues such as cognitive readiness for change (Giordano et al, 2002), identity (Brezina, 2020), internal/external locus of control (Liu and Orrick, 2022) or self-efficacy theories (Brezina and Cranck, 2019). In Langton and Worling’s edited volume, the tone is set from the very first introductory paragraphs with terms such as ‘personal identities’, ‘therapeutic aspirations’ and ‘forensic settings’.…”