Effective Interventions in the Lives of Criminal Offenders

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvJohn A. Humphrey,Peter Cordella

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Utgivningsdatum2013-10-24
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt394 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor149
Upplaga2014
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781461489290

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John Humphrey is a Professor of Criminal Justice at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Dr. Humphrey received his PhD in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire in 1973. His research interests include wrongful conviction, deviant behavior and social control, police and society, and global crime and justice. He has worked on several federally-funded grant projects on gun-related criminal behavior, a life-course analysis of felony parolees, and the efficacy of restorative justice. Peter Cordella is a Professor of Criminal Justice at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He received his PhD in Sociology from Boston University on 1985. His main research interests are theories of crime, models of social control, comparative criminal justice systems, violence studies and white collar crime.

Part 1: Structural Location.- Marriage as an Interventionacross the Life Course.- Patterns of Unemployment and Desistance from Crime.-Part 2: Situational Context.- Criminal Victimization and Criminal Desistance.-Intervetions in Gang-Related Criminal Activity.- Interventions among Ex-Convicts.-Part 3: Human Agency.- Identity Theory and Criminal Desistance.- CognitiveTransformation and Changes in Criminal Behavior.- The Internal Narrative ofDesistance.- Part 4: Cross-Cultural Interventions.- Cross-Cultural Perspectiveson Criminal Interventions.- The Effectiveness of Marriage as an Intervention inthe Netherlands.- Work and Criminal Desistance in a Nordic Welfare State.-Epilogue: Policy Implications and Research Recommendations.