Dealing with Difference in Desistance Theory
The Promise of Intersectionality for New Avenues of Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamie J Fader (0000-0002-1466-1374, Temple University, corresponding author), LaTosha L Traylor (0009-0005-4062-5333, Temple University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 247-260 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12253 |
| OpenAlex | W1553141034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 72 |
The last two decades have witnessed a rapid growth in research and theorizing about the desistance process, namely the causal mechanisms behind the termination or slowing of offending that frequently accompany adulthood. This flurry of scholarly activity has been spurred by both the ascendance of the life course paradigm of criminology, which examines patterns of criminal offending over the life span, but also by the very real practical demands of supporting the transitions of over 700,000 former prisoners released to their communities each year. The field of desistance theory has expanded upon its original formulations that were largely (although not exclusively) based on White males and has recently turned to examining (1) the potential invariance of desistance processes for members of other groups and (2) the unique experiences of reentry and pathways to desistance for sub‐groups. In this essay, we review these recent developments, particularly as they relate to women, persons of color, and incarcerated youth. Finally, we turn to the intersectionality framework, which examines the social location of individuals within interlocking systems of oppression (e.g., race, class, gender, age, sexual orientation, and ability, among others). We conclude with some suggestions for how intersectionality could be used to expand the conceptual and practical boundaries of research on desistance and reentry
Criminology · Field (mathematics · Intersectionality · Life course approach · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology
Exploring the promise of intersectionality for promoting justice-involved women’s health research and policy
Inner Peace
Criminal Careers and Immigration
An Intersectional Analysis of Agentic Efforts Individuals Under Community Supervision Describe to Improve Their Lives
Returning to Motherhood
The Complex Relationship Between Motherhood and Desistance
From “Buzzword” to Best Practice
How do minority positions shape women's routes out of crime? Intersectional perspectives on female desistance
I thought I was screwed before I started that program’
Intersectional needs and reentry
Beneath skin-deep? Why colour-blind policies perpetuate racial stratification for justice-involved women
Probation and parole agent communication patterns as antecedents to clients' reactance and acts to restore freedoms
Where Is This Story Going? A Critical Analysis of the Emerging Field of Narrative Criminology
Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century
Practically Emotional
Interrupting Constructions of a Criminalized Other through a Revised Criminal Activities Checklist Classroom Exercise
Psychosocial Maturation, Race, and Desistance from Crime
Working Through Desistance
Advancing a case for critical realism in forensic mental health scholarship and practice with youth convicted of sexual offences
Expanding the Lens
I Suck at Everything
Réimaginer la réinsertion sociale
Work, Family, and Masculine Identity
Gender, crime, and punishment
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma
Promises I Can Keep
Making good
Living the Drama
Imprisoning CommunitiesHow Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
Gender Differences in Life-Course Theory of Recidivism
Women Under Lock and Key
Reintegration Success and Failure
Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence by Ages 18 and 23
Women Coming Home
Mothers' Reentry into Family Life Following Incarceration
On the Run
Arrested Justice
When prisoners come home
Black Feminist Thought
Pygmalion in the reintegration process
Crime in the Making
Punished
Feminism and criminology
The Female Offender
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
A desistance paradigm for offender management
After Crime and Punishment
Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Crime
An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology
The Intersectional Alternative
Buffers’ against crime? Exploring the roles and limitations of positive relationships among women in prison
Pathways to Prison
Welfare Reform in the United States
Men’s career development and marriage timing during a period of rising inequality
Race, Local Life Circumstances, and Criminal Activity
Might Not Be a Tomorrow”
Redemption in the Presence of Widespread Criminal Background Checks
Drug Use and Desistance Processes
Normalization and Legitimation
Changes in Friendship Relations Over the Life Course
Serious Violent Offenders
Crimes as Social Events in the Life Course
A Life‐course Perspective on Spirituality and Desistance From Crime
Beyond Adolescence‐limited Criminology
The New Jim Crow
Structuration, human development and desistance from crime
Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course
Female Crime
Trajectories of Change in Criminal Offending
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market
Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals
Crime in the Breaking
The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage
On the Existential Aspects of Desistance from Crime
People, Places, and Things
Emotions and Crime over the Life Course
The Mark of a Criminal Record
Gender, Crime, and Desistance
Invisible Stripes? Formerly Incarcerated Persons' Perceptions of Stigma
Getting out of the life
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |