Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison more people for sexual violence.
The Stains of Imprisonment offers an ethnographic account of one of the worlds that this …

Research on the treatment and programs for people who have committed sexual offenses
has greatly increased in the past decade. The aim of this review is to discuss research that …

Research and theory suggest that desistance narratives and pro-social identities are key to
the process of desistance from crime. However, little research has examined how desistance …

The literature on desistance from crime shows that desisters often engage in a process of
rebiographing, crafting life stories–or “redemption scripts”–that make sense of their move …

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual
reoffending. The release of a notorious sex offender from prison strikes fear into members of …

Desistance from sexual offending is of great import to scholars, practitioners, and the public.
Despite theoretical advances in life course theories generally, the same work is only …

Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) appear to reduce the sexual recidivism of core
members (ie, individuals convicted of sexual offending). It remains unclear, however, how …

Identity or self-concept has long been theorized to explain rule-violating behavior. Life-
course criminology scholarship has incorporated identity as a core concept explaining …

The critical role of protective factors has been outlined in psychological theory and research
for several decades, with an early focus on protective factors for healthy child development …

Neste artigo, está o resultado de uma revisão da literatura sobre trajetórias de homens e
mulheres que cometeram crime ou violência. O objetivo foi analisar o trabalho empírico …