Desistance and the "Feared Self": Toward an Identity Theory of Criminal Desistance

By Raymond Paternoster, S. Bushway. 2009

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1. F. McNeill
2. Raymond Paternoster
3. G. Willis
4. Sam King
5. S. Göbbels
6. T. Skardhamar
7. M. Rocque
8. M. Liem

Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Transformation Narratives in Desistance Among Released Lifers (2014, background): “…away from crime have made identifiable changes to their personal identity and self-narrative, and produce a new, “improved” self which no longer cognitively or emotionally coheres with offending (Laub & Sampson, 2003; Maruna, 2001; Paternoster & Bushway, 2009; Sampson & Laub, 1993; Stevens, 2012).”
• Assisted desistance and experiences of probation supervision (2013, background): “The notion of identity change as being an important aspect of desistance is present in a number of studies (for example: Sommers, Baskin and Fagan, 1994; McNeill et al., 2005; Maruna et al., 2004; Paternoster and Bushway, 2009;).”
• Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, unknown): “This work acted as a catalyst for the introduction of aspects of identity change and individual agency often omitted from earlier desistance approaches (Patternoster & Bushway 2009).”
• Does Marriage Reduce Crime? (2015, background): “392 Torbjørn Skardhamar et al. with enduring effects on desistance (Paternoster and Bushway 2009; Bersani and Doherty 2013).”
• The pains of desistance (2016, background): “…to funding and making the option accessible, her worker acted as what Nugent (under review) defines as a ‘meso-broker’, supporting Amy to reach beyond the micro-level to begin to create a realistic blueprint on which a new ‘possible self’ could be operationalized (Paternoster and Bushway, 2009).”
• Identities Through Time: An Exploration of Identity Change as a Cause of Desistance (2016, methodology): “These results are largely supportive of identity theories in general (Burke & Stets, 2011; Erikson, 1968) and identity theories of desistance (F-Dufour et al., in press; Giordano et al., 2002; Maruna, 2001; Paternoster & Bushway, 2009) in particular.”
• An integrative theory of desistance from sex offending (2012, background): “In their identity theory of criminal desistance, Paternoster and Bushway (2009) view crystallization of discontent as a powerful motivator of identity change.”
• Evaluating the Long-Term Effects of Prisoner Reentry Services on Recidivism: What Types of Services Matter? (2016, background): “It also aligns with recent theoretical perspectives that attribute desistance to a process of individual change in which offenders shift their cognitive perspectives to adopt a new sense of self (e.g. Giordano, Cernkovich, & Rudolph, 2002; Maruna, 2001; Paternoster & Bushway, 2009).”
• Four forms of ‘offender’ rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective (2012, background): “This may in turn allow the development of a third stage in which the person begins envisioning ‘an appealing and conventional replacement self’ (and perhaps turning away from a ‘feared self’, on which see Paternoster and Bushway, 2010).”