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The 'chicken and egg' of subjective and social factors in desistance from crime

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It is now widely acknowledged that progression from persistent offending to desistance from crime is the outcome of a complex interaction between subjective/agency factors and social/environmental factors. A methodological challenge for desistance researchers is to unravel the differential impacts of these internal and external factors and the sequence in which they come into play. Towards this, the present investigation draws on a prospective study of 130 male property offenders, interviewed...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1177/1477370807087640

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
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University of Oxford
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SSD
Department:
Law
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Centre for Criminology
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Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
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University at Albany, SUNY, USA
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SAGE Publications Publisher's website
Journal:
European Journal of Criminology Journal website
Volume:
5
Issue:
2
Pages:
131-159
Publication date:
2008-04-01
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EISSN:
1741-2609
ISSN:
1477-3708
Language:
English
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2010-10-27

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