Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation1

By Peggy C. Giordano, Stephen A. Cernkovich, Jennifer L. Rudolph. American Journal of Sociology, 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION, EMOTIONAL COPING, AND CRIMINAL DESISTANCE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MEN UNDERGOING CHANGE (2009, background): “Previous qualitative work on behavioral change related to religion or spirituality has also been hampered by the widely varying stages of desistance occupied by the subjects interviewed (Laub and Sampson 2003; Maruna 2001; Giordano et al. 2002; Terry 2003).”
‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons (2012, background): “Although desistance theory is a relatively recent addition to the terrain of criminological inquiry, an already impressive accumulation of empirical research suggests that people who abandon criminal activity make identifiable changes to their personal identity and self-narrative, and produce a ‘new”
Disengagement from Gangs as Role Transitions (2014, background): “Many subjects identified a specific event or time that they left their gang, and in a majority of those instances, family was the key variable that was a “hook for change” (Giordano et al., 2002).”
Book Review of After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration (2004, background): “The remaining three only when individuals cognitively change their role or identity from one of ‘delinquent’ or ‘criminal’, to one of a ‘changed person’ or ‘productive member of society’ (Lemert, 1951; Maruna, 2001; Giordano et al., 2002 ).”
Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders (2010, background): “Many contend that positive change then occurs as an in ternal psychological realignment of self - conceptions takes hold ( Kiecolt , 1994 ; Giordano , Cernkovich , and Rudolph , 2002 ) ; that is , an individual takes a proactive role in creat ing new opportunities for positive social involvement…”
But Some of Them Don’t Come Back (to Prison!) (2009, background): “…control over their lives and destinies, hold more prosocial outlooks on life, take responsibility for shaping their future, and find generative meaning or purpose in life. giordano, Cenkovich, and Rudolph (2002) similarly conclude that cognitive transformation is crucially linked to desistance.”
The Impact of Imprisonment on Marriage and Divorce: A Risk Set Matching Approach (2010, methodology): “For a much more qualified perspective on the salience of marriage, see Giordano et al. (2002, 2007). individuals who were convicted of a crime at the same age but were not sentenced to a custodial sanction, and use propensity score estimation to select from these a subset of individuals who were at…”
DOES MARRIAGE REDUCE CRIME? A COUNTERFACTUAL APPROACH TO WITHIN‐INDIVIDUAL CAUSAL EFFECTS* (2006, background): “Fourth, marriage comes in a stylized " package " typically involving a number of identities, some of which can change one's sense of self through cognitive transformation (Giordano, Cernkovich, and Rudolph, 2002).”