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desistance: a standalone construct

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desistance1 CONSTRUCTDesistanceLAUB & SAMPSON · 2001

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Criminology

The process of winding down offending

Desistance is the process by which people who have been offending slow down and eventually stop, and the study of why and how that happens. Laub and Sampson's 2001 Understanding desistance from crime reviewed the evidence that desistance is a gradual process tied to turning points like stable work, marriage, and shifting social bonds rather than a single decision. The construct is the cessation side of a criminal career (the counterpart to onset and persistence), and it reframes the question from why people offend to why they stop.[1]

Unit
Whether and how an offending pattern winds down toward cessation over time
Recovery means
Desistance is itself the recovery process; it is treated as gradual, with lapses, rather than an instant switch
Measured by
Studied through longitudinal offending trajectories, time to cessation, and life-course turning points

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criminal career1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · offending as a sequence over a liferecidivism2 fields · 2 citationsinvariant · one construct, two systemsconstruct6 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

  1. Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2001). Understanding desistance from crime. Crime and Justice, 28, 1–69. https://doi.org/10.1086/652208

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