Desistance from Crime and Explanatory Style

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The Role of Transformation Narratives in Desistance Among Released Lifers (2014, methodology): “Treatment programs for ex-offenders are typically deficit-based and aim to eradicate or reduce the various problems associated with criminal behavior (Ward & Brown, 2004); here, the story is that ex-offenders are people with multiple deficits, ranging from drug and alcohol use, poor educational hist”
A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions † (2006, background): “Likewise, recent studies by Maruna (2001, 2004) found desisting former offenders were more likely than active offenders to employ external, unstable and specific attributions in explaining their past offences.”
Batterer intervention programmes: A meta-analytic review of effectiveness (2013, background): “Second, gender violence is entrenched in a culture of violence that has been described as a form of toxic cognition that is essentially internal, stable, and global (Maruna, 2004).”
Why God Is Often Found Behind Bars: Prison Conversions and the Crisis of Self-Narrative (2006, background): “Importantly, these narrative patterns seem to distinguish successful from unsuccessful ex-prisoners, predicting successful reform after imprisonment, in a variety of empirical tests (see Maruna, 2001, 2004).”