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Desistance from Crime; Foreword; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Jack; Edward; Why Do We Need a Book on Desistance?; Plan of the Book; 2 Desistance in Perspective: Historical Work and the Identification of a Field of Study; A Murder and a Debate about Crime over the Life-Course; An Overview of Early Research on Age and Crime; Adolphe Quetelet and the Influence of Age; G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence: Birth of a New Field of Study; Criminological Views of the Age-Effect in the Early Twentieth Century; The Gluecks: Maturation and Behavioral Reform
Studies of Behavioral Reform in the Mid to Late Twentieth CenturyEarly Theoretical Accounts of the Age-Crime Curve and Desistance; When Did the Term 'Desistance' Emerge?; Summary and Conclusion; 3 Desistance under the Microscope: The Definition and Measurement of Desistance in Modern Criminology; Definition and Measurement: Central Aspects of Life and Social Science; The Age-Crime Curve and Desistance: What Does It Tell Us?; A Collection of Definitions of Desistance; Expanding the Definition and Measurement of Desistance; Steps toward Desistance: Stages of Behavioral Reform
Analytical/Measurement Issues: Desistance as a ProcessQuantitative vs. Qualitative Research and Desistance; Consequences of a Lack of Measurement/Analytic Agreement; Conclusion: Definitions and Measurement Matter; 4 What Do We Know? Longitudinal Studies and Correlates of Desistance; Major Longitudinal Studies Examining Desistance; The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development; Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Study; The Montreal Two Sample Longitudinal Study; National Youth Survey; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; Add Health; Ohio Life-Course Study; PYS/DYS/RYDS
Pathways to DesistanceSheffield Pathways out of Crime Study; Tracking Progress on Probation Study; What Have We Learned?; When Does Desistance Happen?; What Causes-Or Is Related To-Desistance?; Internal Factors; External Factors; Substance Use; Demographic Factors; Methodological Approaches; Chronic Offending; Conclusion: What Do We Know?; 5 Putting It All Together: Theories of Desistance from Crime; Theories of Desistance from Crime; Pure Age or Biological Theories of Desistance; Cognitive or Brain Maturation and Desistance from Crime
Making the Right Choice: Rational Choice and Desistance from CrimeOn Cognitive Development and Desistance: Psychological and Psychosocial Theories; Personality Traits: Fixed or Changing?; Psychosocial Maturation; It's Just Not Who I Am Anymore: Identity Theories of Desistance; The Theory of Cognitive Transformation; Maruna's Theory of Narrative Rescripting; Paternoster and Bushway: The Feared Self; Turning Points, Social Inclusion, and Desistance: Social Process Theories; Social Learning Theory and Desistance; Changing Contexts, Changing Behavior?; Civic (Re)integration and Desistance
Studies of Behavioral Reform in the Mid to Late Twentieth CenturyEarly Theoretical Accounts of the Age-Crime Curve and Desistance; When Did the Term 'Desistance' Emerge?; Summary and Conclusion; 3 Desistance under the Microscope: The Definition and Measurement of Desistance in Modern Criminology; Definition and Measurement: Central Aspects of Life and Social Science; The Age-Crime Curve and Desistance: What Does It Tell Us?; A Collection of Definitions of Desistance; Expanding the Definition and Measurement of Desistance; Steps toward Desistance: Stages of Behavioral Reform
Analytical/Measurement Issues: Desistance as a ProcessQuantitative vs. Qualitative Research and Desistance; Consequences of a Lack of Measurement/Analytic Agreement; Conclusion: Definitions and Measurement Matter; 4 What Do We Know? Longitudinal Studies and Correlates of Desistance; Major Longitudinal Studies Examining Desistance; The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development; Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Study; The Montreal Two Sample Longitudinal Study; National Youth Survey; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; Add Health; Ohio Life-Course Study; PYS/DYS/RYDS
Pathways to DesistanceSheffield Pathways out of Crime Study; Tracking Progress on Probation Study; What Have We Learned?; When Does Desistance Happen?; What Causes-Or Is Related To-Desistance?; Internal Factors; External Factors; Substance Use; Demographic Factors; Methodological Approaches; Chronic Offending; Conclusion: What Do We Know?; 5 Putting It All Together: Theories of Desistance from Crime; Theories of Desistance from Crime; Pure Age or Biological Theories of Desistance; Cognitive or Brain Maturation and Desistance from Crime
Making the Right Choice: Rational Choice and Desistance from CrimeOn Cognitive Development and Desistance: Psychological and Psychosocial Theories; Personality Traits: Fixed or Changing?; Psychosocial Maturation; It's Just Not Who I Am Anymore: Identity Theories of Desistance; The Theory of Cognitive Transformation; Maruna's Theory of Narrative Rescripting; Paternoster and Bushway: The Feared Self; Turning Points, Social Inclusion, and Desistance: Social Process Theories; Social Learning Theory and Desistance; Changing Contexts, Changing Behavior?; Civic (Re)integration and Desistance