@article{ref1,
title=""God, I don't want that woman to be right about me": memorable messages, reflected appraisals, and women's desistance",
journal="Victims and offenders",
year="2019",
author="Stone, Rebecca",
volume="14",
number="6",
pages="671-691",
abstract="Theories of desistance as a process of identity change are increasingly popular, with recent attention shifting to valued relationships, reflected appraisals, and emotion. The current study explores a control theory perspective on &quot;memorable messages.&quot; Messages recalled by a sample of mothers involved in substance use and criminal offending demonstrate how these messages inform identity standards and guide behavioral decision-making. Women reveal the emotions and subsequent behavior related to satisfying or violating their identity standards as &quot;good mothers.&quot; The study concludes with a discussion of the potential theoretical contributions of this framework, as well as the implications for future identity and desistance research.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1556-4886",
doi="10.1080/15564886.2019.1630696",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2019.1630696"
}