Your First Five Crime Studies of April 3
All of today's research relates to desistance from crime
I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you explain crime to your audience.
Your First Five is a daily series (M-F) that publishes a curated selection of recent research related to crime and justice. Each post contains links to new studies (each related to a single topic) that I hope will enhance your work explaining crime. The publication schedule is in flux for the moment.
These new studies related to criminology and criminal justice were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. Participants’ Experiences of Sex Offender Treatment: Searching for Desisting Narrative Identities, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. (Open access)
2. Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance, published in The British Journal of Criminology. (Open access)
3. Assisted Desistance in Correctional Centers: From Theory to Practice, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (Open access)
4. Predictors of Attrition in the Pathways to Desistance Study: Testing for Differential Salience Across Time, published in Crime & Delinquency. (Restricted access)
5. Philosophies in Community Supervision of Gang-Involved Youth and Adults, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (Restricted access)
I might cover some of these studies further in Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments.
Right now, I'm considering number 3. The following passage caught my eye:
...those who felt their desistance journeys were being more strongly assisted reported a greater sense of self-efficacy, providing support for the idea that custodial experiences can lead to better rehabilitative outcomes.