Desistance from Crime: A Theoretical Reformulation

By Shadd Maruna. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• Four forms of ‘offender’ rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective (2012, background): “The desisting person’s change in behavior is sometimes recognized by others and reflected back to him in a “delabeling process”... ’ (Maruna and Farrall, 2004: 28).”
• The pains of desistance (2016, background): “Maruna and Farrall (2004) developed the concepts of primary and secondary desistance to mirror those of primary and secondary deviance; primary desistance refers to a period of nonoffending, and secondary desistance to a change in self-identity where the person no longer thinks of themselves as an…”
• Dynamic risk and protective factors (2016, background): “Similarly, protective factors seem to be a combination of specific events, but also the explanatory attributions ascribed to these events (Maruna & Farrall, 2004).”
• Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, unknown): “…is a two-stage process from primary desistance (where offending stops) to secondary desistance (a permanent state that goes beyond the cessation of the offending behaviour) involving a complex interaction between individual, social capital and identity change dimensions (Maruna & Farrall 2004).”
• Criminal Careers, Desistance and Subjectivity (2004, background): “But given that there are relatively few career criminals who undergo complete transformations of self (Jennings, 1990; Maruna and Farrall, 2004), or otherwise radical or religious conversions, the kind of modest, precarious and by all accounts ambiguous change depicted in Dan’s and Anthony’s…”
• Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management (2010, background): “In defining or conceptualising desistance, some have suggested that there is a difference between primary desistance, meaning a lull or crime-free gap in a criminal career, and secondary desistance, meaning a change in the way that an ex-offender seems him or herself (Maruna and Farrall, 2004).”
• ‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons (2012, background): “…(1951), includes a ‘secondary desistance’ in which the would-be exoffender assumes ‘the role or identity of a “changed person”’ (Maruna et al., 2004: 274; Maruna and Farrall, 2004), then it is appropriate to recognize that for those residents who responded well to the TC regime, desistance in…”
• A desistance paradigm for offender management (2006, background): “It is beyond the scope of this article to give an account of these changes (see Nellis, 1999; Raynor and Vanstone, 2002; Mair, 2004; Robinson and McNeill, 2004).”