Civic commitment
Promoting desistance through community integration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12664840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn J Fox (University of Vermont, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-94 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Punishment & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-4745 • E-ISSN: 1741-3095 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1462474515623102 |
| OpenAlex | W2380209945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 47 |
Why people desist from crime has been a popular topic among criminologists over the past decade or more. Debate continues about the relative importance of external or internal factors in contributing to desistance. Both sides agree that social dimensions affect desistance. This article argues that the social role of the larger community of ordinary citizens in integrating offenders has been under-theorized and untapped. Drawing upon qualitative interview data from a Circles of Support and Accountability program, I describe and analyze the nature of the relationships formed between released offenders and community volunteers who support them in their reintegration efforts. After a period of developing trust, the team creates a sense of mutual obligation, which thereby establishes the group’s moral authority, similar to the “family model” advocated by Braithwaite. Such a strengths-based and inclusive model of reentry contrasts with much of the correctional rehabilitation discourse that concentrates on offender re-offense risks and their management
Accountability · Community policing · Criminology · Moral obligation · Obligation · Political science · Public relations · Punitive damages · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
Desistance in Context
Reentry in Practice
Transformative Learning Theory and Its Application to the Delivery of Community Maintenance Programs for Men Who Have Sexually Offended
A Qualitative Systematic Review of the Barriers and Facilitators of the Reintegration of Men Convicted of a Sexual Offense From Prison or Secure Care into the Community
From Taking to Giving Account
The Cumulative Disadvantages of Socially Toxic Family Environments
Released Fraud Offenders
Practicing Lived Experience Leadership with Love
Doctoring With Conviction
Social Capital, Mutual Aid and Desistance
Crime in the making
Making good
Rehabilitation
A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions †
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Delinquency and Drift
Locked OutFelon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy
The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime
Towards Desistance
Circles of Support and Accountability
The kindness of prisoners
A desistance paradigm for offender management
Why the risk and needs principles are relevant to correctional programs (even to employment programs)
Unsettling the discourse of punishment? Competing narratives of reentry and the possibilities for change
Experiments in risk and criminal justice
Cannibalism and Bulimia
Assembling Risk and the Restructuring of Penal Control
Government and Control
The Limits of the Sovereign State
The good lives model and conceptual issues in offender rehabilitation
Under These Conditions
Been A Heavy Life
Changing Violent Minds
Reproducing Criminal Types
| Citations per year | 1.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |