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desistance signaling: a standalone construct

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the idea that completing costly programs lets people with criminal records signal to employers that they have already desisted.

In corrections, desistance signaling refers to the idea that completing costly programs lets people with criminal records signal to employers that they have already desisted. This meaning comes from Bushway (2012) in Criminology & Public Policy.[1]

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desistance1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · how people stop offending policy2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs signal5 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

Bushway, S. D., & Apel, R. (2012). A Signaling Perspective on Employment‐Based Reentry Programming: Training Completion as a Desistance Signal. Criminology & Public Policy, 11(1), 21-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2012.00786.x

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