Desistance from Sex Offending: Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys

By D. Laws, Tony Ward. 2010

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An integrative theory of desistance from sex offending (2012, background): “It builds on recent work by Laws and Ward (2011) that establishes a connection between offender rehabilitation and offenders’ decisions to live offence free lives.”
A Developmental Taxonomy of Juvenile Sex Offenders for Theory, Research, and Prevention (2012, background): “…and female peers who may trigger self-identity change and, in turn, act as protective factors for the AL group, but likely not for the HRSD group (Laws & Ward, 2011; Sampson & Laub, 2005). limiTATiONS AND cONclUSiONS The current study examined nonsexual and sexual offending trajectories of a…”
Four forms of ‘offender’ rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective (2012, background): “…dialogue here; interested readers will find much more developed discussions in a number of recent books and articles (for example, Farrall, 2002; Laws and Ward, 2010; McNeill, 2006: McNeill and Whyte 2007; McNeill, 2009; McNeil, Raynor and Trotter, 2010; Ward and Maruna, 2007; Weaver and…”
Beyond sexual recidivism : a review of the sexual criminal career parameters of adult sex offenders (2013, unknown): “It is the factors or mechanisms explaining desistance that remain tentative (Laws & Ward, 2011).”