Journal article
The 'chicken and egg' of subjective and social factors in desistance from crime
- Abstract:
- 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 in the 1990s (the Oxford Recidivism Study), and followed up 10 years later. The analysis supports a 'subjective-social model' in which subjective states measured before release have a direct effect on recidivism as well as indirect effects through their impact on social circumstances experienced after release from prison.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Journal:
- European Journal of Criminology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 131-159
- Publication date:
- 2008-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-2609
- ISSN:
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1477-3708
- Language:
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English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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uuid:6294e4b6-7989-4417-998c-02ba44de8ac8
- Local pid:
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ora:4326
- Deposit date:
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2010-10-27
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- Copyright holder:
- European Society of Criminology and SAGE Publications
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in the European Journal of Criminology, 5(2), April 2008 by SAGE Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2008 European Society for Criminology and SAGE Publications.
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