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Citation

Stevens A. Criminol. Crim. Justice 2012; 12(5): 527-547.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1748895811432958

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Drawing upon semi-ethnographic research, this article explores desistance in process among serious offenders residing in democratic therapeutic communities. It is argued that offender rehabilitation in therapeutic communities involves a process of purposive and agentic reconstruction of identity and narrative reframing, so that a 'new' and 'better' person emerges whose attitudes and behaviours cohere with long-term desistance from crime. This is possible because the prison-based therapeutic community, with its commitment to a radically 'different' culture and mode of rehabilitation, socially enables, produces and reinforces the emergence of someone 'different'. The article therefore develops existing understandings of change in forensic therapeutic communities, and reaffirms theories of desistance which emphasize the importance of pro-social changes to the offender's personal identity and self-narrative. KW: Juvenile justice; Juvenile delinquency;


Language: en

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