The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime

By Thomas P. Lebel, Ros Burnett, Shadd Maruna, S. Bushway. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons (2012, background): “The chronological order and relative importance of these changes – a puzzle which LeBel et al. (2008) term ‘the “chicken and egg” of subjective and social factors’ – remains unclear.”
A Signaling Perspective on Employment-Based Reentry Programming Training Completion as a Desistance Signal (2012, neutral): “Showing up on time and following the rules might be costly to a legally cynical person who possesses an oppositional view toward the legitimate world, or adopts an identity as a “gang banger” or street tough (LeBel et al., 2008). However, these same program requirements should be less costly to some”
Does Marriage Reduce Crime? (2015, background): “Second, other theories, such as cognitive transformation (Giordano, Cernkovich, and Rudolph 2002) and the subjective-social model (LeBel et al. 2008), argue that changes in objective life circumstances are unlikely to facilitate change without a preexisting willingness to “go straight.””
Does dropping out of school mean dropping into delinquency (2009, background): “The desistance literature has reached a consensus of sorts that current descriptions of change ignore the role of individual choice and/or agency in life changes that is then correlated with meaningful changes in behavior (Giordano, Cernkovich, and Rudolph, 2002; Laub and Sampson, 2003; LeBel et al.”
If One Doesn’t Get You Another One Will (2012, background): “Formerly incarcerated persons, who must overcome barriers for multiple reasons such as a substance use problem and a mental illness, also may be more likely to recidivate (Hartwell, 2004; LeBel et al., 2008; Messina, Burdon, Hagopian, & Prendergast, 2004).”
Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, positive): “…by LeBel et al. (2008) indicating in their 10-year follow-up study of 130 male offenders that ‘belief in one’s ability to go straight, or belief in self-efficacy . . . . may be a necessary if not sufficient condition for an individual to be able to desist from crime’ (LeBel et al. 2008, p. 154).”
Identities Through Time: An Exploration of Identity Change as a Cause of Desistance (2016, background): “Further, while LeBel et al. (2008) have made an important beginning, it is important to examine the effect of within-individual change in identity and its impact on desistance.”
Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management (2010, background): “LeBel et al (2008), in an attempt to disentangle the interaction between such ‘subjective/agency’ factors and ‘social/environmental’ factors found that subjective states measured before release had a direct effect on recidivism as well as indirect effects through their impact on social…”
Human Agency and Explanations of Criminal Desistance: Arguments for a Rational Choice Theory (2015, background): “[51], for example, examined desistance among the 130 male property offenders from the Oxford Recidivism Study who were initially interviewed in the 1990s and were followed up some 10 years later.”
Dynamic risk and protective factors (2016, background): “While there is some conceptual appeal in using the desistance nomenclature of human and social capital, this potentially minimises the importance that situations and appraisals have on dynamic risk (LeBel et al., 2008).”