Desistance from crime: A review and ideas for moving forward

Handbook of Life-Course Criminology: Emerging Trends and Directions for Future Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 213-231

  Bushway, Shawn D ^a   Paternoster, Raymond ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Desistance; Hazard; Identity; Life course; Life course persistent

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897435136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5113-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

References (100)

1. Abbott, A. (2001). Time matters: On theory and method. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. Agnew, R. (2005). Why do criminals offend? A general theory of crime and delinquency. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing.
3. Akerlof, G. A., & Kranton, R. E. (2010). Identity economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
4. Akers, R. L. (1998). Social learning and social structure: A general theory of crime and deviance. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
5. Albert, D., & Steinberg, L. (2011). Judgment and decision making in adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21, 211-224.
6. Andrews, D. A., Bonta, J., & Wormith, J. S. (2006). The recent past and near future of risk and/or need assessment. Crime & Delinquency, 52, 7-27.
7. Apel, R., Bushway, S., Paternoster, R., Brame, R., & Sweeten, G. (2008). Using state child labor laws to identify the causal effect of youth employment on deviant behavior and academic achievement. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24, 337-362.
8. Barnett, A., Blumstein, A., & Farrington, D. P. (1989). A prospective test of a criminal career model. Criminology, 27, 373-385.
9. Baskin, D., & Sommers, I. (1998). Casualties of community disorder: Women's careers in violent crime. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
10. Blokland, A., Nagin, D., & Nieuwbeerta, P. (2005). Life span offending trajectories of a Dutch conviction cohort. Criminology, 43, 919-954.
11. Blokland, A., & Nieuwbeerta, P. (2005). The effects of life circumstances on longitudinal trajectories of offending. Criminology, 43, 1203-1240.
12. Blumstein, A., & Cohen, J. (1987). Characterizing criminal careers. Science, 238, 985-991.
13. Blumstein, A., & Nakamura, K. (2009). Redemption in the presence of widespread criminal background checks. Criminology, 47, 327-359.
14. Brame, R., Bushway, S. D., & Paternoster, R. (2003). Examining the prevalence of criminal desistance. Criminology, 41, 423-448.
15. Burke, P. J. (1980). The self: measurement requirements from an interactionist perspective. Social Psychology Quarterly, 43, 18-29.
16. Burke, P. J., & Reitzes, D. C. (1981). The link between identity and role performance. Social Psychology Quarterly, 44, 83-92.
17. Burke, P. J., & Reitzes, D. C. (1991). An identity theory approach to commitment. Social Psychology Quarterly, 54, 239-251.
18. Bushway, S. (forthcoming). Chapter 10: Life course persisent offenders. In F. Cullen & P. Wilcox (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of criminological theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
19. Bushway, S., & Apel, R. (2012). A signaling perspective on employment-based reentry programming: Training completion as a desistance signal. Criminology and Public Policy, 11(1), 21-50.
20. Bushway, S. D., Nieuwbeerta, P., & Blokland, A. (2011). The predictive value of criminal background checks: Do age and criminal history affect time to redemption? Criminology, 49, 27-60.
21. Bushway, S., & Paternoster, R. (2012). Understanding desistance: Theory testing with formal empirical models. In J. MacDonald (Ed.), Measuring crime and criminality: Advances in criminological theory (Vol. 17, pp. 299-333). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
22. Bushway, S., Piquero, A., Broidy, L., Cauffman, E., & Mazerolle, P. (2001). An empirical framework for studying desistance as a process. Criminology, 39, 491-516.
23. Bushway, S., & Reuter, P. (2002). Labor markets and crime. In J. Q. Wilson & J. Petersilia (Eds.), Crime (pp. 191-224). Oakland: ICS Press.
24. Bushway, S. D., Sweeten, G., & Nieuwbeerta, P. (2009). Measuring long term individual trajectories of offending using multiple methods. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 25(3), 259-286.
25. Cooley, C. H. (1902). Human nature and the social order. New York: Scribners.
26. Doherty, E. E. (2006). Self-control, social bonds, and desistance: A test of life-course interdependence. Criminology, 44, 807-834.
27. Ebaugh, H. R. F. (1988). Becoming an ex: The process of role exit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
28. Eggleston, E. P., Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2004). Methodological sensitivities to latent class analysis of long-term criminal trajectories. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 20, 1-26.
29. Elder, G. H. (1998). The life course as developmental theory. Child Development, 69, 1-12.
30. Fagan, J. (1989). Cessation of family violence: Deterrence and dissuasion. In L. Ohlin & M. Tonry (Eds.), Crime and justice: An annual review of research (Vol. 11, pp. 377-425). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
31. Farrall, S. (2005). On the existential aspects of desistance from crime. Symbolic Interaction, 28, 367-386.
32. Farrall, S., & Maruna, S. (2004). Desistance-focused criminal justice policy research. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 358-367.
33. Farrington, D. P., Coid, J. W., Harnett, L., Jolliffe, D., Soteriou, N., & Turner, R. (2006). Criminal careers up to age 50 and life success up to age 48: New findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquency Development. London: Home Office.
34. Foote, N. N. (1950). Identification as the basis for a theory of motivation. American Sociological Review, 16, 14-21.
35. Giordano, P. C., Cernkovich, S. A., & Rudolph, J. L. (2002). Gender, crime, and desistance: Toward a theory of cognitive transformation. The American Journal of Sociology, 107, 990-1064.
36. Giordano, P. C., Cernkovich, S. A., & Schroeder, R. D. (2007). Emotions and crime over the life course: A neo-Median perspective on criminal continuity and change. The American Journal of Sociology, 112, 1603-1661.
37. Glueck, S., & Glueck, E. (1974). Of delinquency and crime. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
38. Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. New York: Simon and Schuester.
39. Gottfredson, M. R., & Hirschi, T. (1990). A general theory of crime. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
40. Gottfredson, S. D., & Moriarty, L. J. (2006). Statistical risk assessment: Old problems and new applications. Crime and Delinquency, 52, 178-200.
41. Gove, W. R. (1985). The effect of age and gender on deviant behavior: A biopsychosocial perspective. In A. S. Rossi (Ed.), Gender and the life course (pp. 115-144). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
42. Hagan, J., & Palloni, A. (1988). Crimes as social events in the life course: Reconceiving a criminological controversy. Criminology, 26, 87-100.
43. Hansen, B. E. (2001). The new economics of structural change: Dating breaks in U.S. labor productivity. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15, 117-128.
44. Hay, C., & Forrest, W. (2008). Self-control theory and the concept of opportunity: Making the case for a more systematic union. Criminology, 46, 1039-1072.
45. Horney, J. D., Osgood, W., & Marshall, I. H. (1995). Criminal careers in the short term: Intra-individual variability in crime and its relation to local life circumstances. American Sociological Review, 60, 655-673.
46. Hoyle, R. H., Kernis, M. H., Leary, M. R., & Baldwin, M. W. (1999). Selfhood: Identity, esteem and regulation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
47. Hoyle, R. H., & Sherrill, M. R. (2006). Future orientation in the self-system: Possible selves, self-regulation, and behavior. Journal of Personality, 74, 1673-1696.
48. James, W. (1890). The principles of psychology. New York: Henry Holt.
49. Kiecolt, K. J. (1994). Stress and the decision to change oneself: A theoretical model. Social Psychology Quarterly, 57, 49-63.
50. Kirk, D. S. (2012). Residential change as a turning point in the life course of crime: Desistance or temporary cessation? Criminology, 50, 329-358.
51. Kurlychek, M. C., Brame, R., & Bushway, S. D. (2006). Scarlet letters and recidivism: Does an old criminal record predict future offending? Criminology and Public Policy, 5, 483-504.
52. Kurlychek, M. C., Brame, R., & Bushway, S. D. (2007). Enduring risk? Old criminal records and predictions of future criminal involvement. Crime and Delinquency, 53, 64-83.
53. Kurlychek, M., Bushway, S., & Brame, R. (2012). Longterm crime desistance and recidivism patterns: Evidence from the Essex County Convicted Felon Study. Criminology, 50(1), 71-104.
54. Laub, J. H., & Edwin, H. (2006). Sutherland and the MichaelAdler report: Searching for the soul of criminology seventy years later. Criminology, 44(2), 235-257.
55. Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2001). Understanding desistance from crime. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and justice: A review of research (Vol. 28, pp. 1-69). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
56. Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2003). Shared beginnings, divergent lives: Delinquent boys to age 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
57. Le Blanc, M., & Fréchette, M. (1989). Male criminal activity from childhood through youth. New York: Springer.
58. Maltz, M. D. (1984). Recidivism. New York: Academic.
59. Maltz, M. D., & McCleary, R. (1977). The mathematics of behavioral change. Evaluation Quarterly, 1, 421-438.
60. Markus, H. (1977). Self-schemata and processing information about the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 63-78.
61. Markus, H. (1983). Self-knowledge: An expanded view. Journal of Personality, 51, 543-565.
62. Markus, H., & Kunda, Z. (1986). Stability and malleability of the self-concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 858-866.
63. Markus, H., & Nurius, P. (1986). Possible selves. American Psychologist, 41, 954-969.
64. Markus, H., & Nurius, P. (1987). Possible selves: The interface between motivation and the self-concept. In K. Yardley & T. Honess (Eds.), Self and identity: Psychological perspectives. New York: Wiley.
65. Markus, H., & Wurf, E. (1987). The dynamic self-concept: A social psychological perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 38, 299-337.
66. Maruna, S. (1999). Criminology, desistance, and the psychology of the stranger. In D. Cantor & L. Alison (Eds.), The sociology of crime: Groups, teams, and networks. Aldershot: Ashgate.
67. Maruna, S. (2001). Making good: How ex-convicts reform and build their lives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
68. Maruna, S. (2004). Desistance and explanatory style: A new direction in the psychology of reform. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 20, 184-200.
69. Maruna, S., & Roy, K. (2007). Amputation or reconstruction? Notes on the concept of "knifing off' and desistance from crime. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 23, 104-124.
70. Mead, G. H. (1934). Mind, self, and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
71. Mischel, W., Ayduk, O., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2003). Sustaining delay of gratification over time: A hot-cool systems perspective. In G. Loewenstein, D. Read, & R. Baumeister (Eds.), Time and decision: Economic and psychological perspectives on intemporal choice (pp. 175-200). New York: Russell Sage.
72. Moffitt, T. (1993). Adolesence-limited and life-course- persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674-701.
73. Moffitt, T. (2006). Life-course persistent versus adolescence-limited antisocial behavior. In D. Cicchetti & D. J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology, Vol. 3: Risk, disorder, and adaptation (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
74. Nagin, D. S. (2005). Group-based modeling of development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
75. Nagin, D. S., & Land, K. C. (1993). Age, criminal careers, and population heterogeneity: Specification and estimation of a nonparametric mixed Poisson model. Criminology, 31, 327-362.
76. Nagin, D. S., & Paternoster, R. (1994). Personal capital and social control: The deterrence implications of a theory of individual differences in offending. Criminology, 32, 581-606.
77. Osgood, W. (2005). Making sense of crime and the life course. The Annals, 602, 196-211.
78. Ousey, G. C., & Wilcox, P. (2007). Interactions between antisocial propensity and life-course varying correlates of delinquent behavior: Differences by method of estimation and implications for theory. Criminology, 45, 401-442.
79. Oyserman, D., Bybee, D., Terry, K., & Hart-Johnson, T. (2004). Possible selves as roadmaps. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 130-149.
80. Paternoster, R., & Bushway, S. (2009). Desistance and the "feared self': Toward an identity theory of criminal desistance. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 99, 1103-1155.
81. Piquero, A. R. (2008). Taking stock of developmental trajectories of criminal activity over the life-course. In A. Lieberman (Ed.), The long view of crime: A synthesis of longitudinal research (pp. 23-78). New York: Springer.
82. Rhodes, W. (2011). Predicting criminal recidivism: A research note. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 7, 57-71.
83. Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1993). Crime in the making: Pathways and turning points through life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
84. Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (2003). Life-course desisters? Trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70. Criminology, 41, 301-339.
85. Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (2005). Seductions of method: Rejoinder to Nagin and Tremblay. Criminology, 43, 905-914.
86. Sampson, R. J., Laub, J. H., & Wimer, C. (2006). Does marriage reduce crime? A counter-factual approach to within-individual causal effects. Criminology, 44, 465-508.
87. Schlenker, B. R. (1985). Identity and self-identification. In B. R. Schlenker (Ed.), The self and social life (pp. 65-100). New York: McGraw-Hill.
88. Schmidt, P., & Witte, A. D. (1988). Predicting recidivism using survival models. New York: Springer.
89. Shover, N. (1996). Greatpretenders: Pursuits andcareers of persistent thieves. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
90. Skardhamar, T. (2009). Reconsidering the theory of adolescent-limited and life-course persistent antisocial behaviour. British Journal of Criminology, 49, 863-878.
91. Soothill, K., & Francis, B. (2009). When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders? Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 48, 373-387.
92. Stryker, S. (1968). Identity salience and role performance: The relevance of symbolic interaction theory for family research. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 4, 558-564.
93. Stryker, S. (1980). Symbolic interactionism: A social structural version. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin Cummings.
94. Stryker, S., & Burke, P. J. (2000). The past, present, and future of an identity theory. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63, 284-297.
95. Thornberry, T. P. (1987). Toward an interactional theory of delinquency. Criminology, 25, 863-891.
96. Thombeiry, T. P., Bushway, S. D., Lizotte, A. J., & Krohn, M. D. (2008). Accounting for behavioral change. (woiking papei).
97. Uggen, C. (2000). Work as a turning point in the life course of criminals: A duration model of age, employment, and recidivism. American Sociological Review, 65, 529-546.
98. Wilmoth, J. R., & Horiuchi, S. (1999). Rectangularization revisited: Variability of age at death within human populations. Demography, 36, 475-495.
99. Wright, B. R. E., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., & Paternoster, R. (2004). Does the perceived risk of punishment deter criminally-prone individuals? Rational choice, selfcontrol, and crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 41(2), 180-213.
100. Wright, B. R. E., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., & Silva, P. (2001). The effects of social ties on crime vary by criminal propensity: A life-course model of interdependence. Criminology, 39(2), 321-348.