Book chapter
Factors Predicting Desistance from Criminal Behavior and Aggression in Adult Offenders
Facilitating Desistance from Aggression and Crime, pp 294-313
30 Jun 2022
Abstract
Crime and aggression are among the strongest and most stable concerns of citizens and policy makers. Similar to the research examining life‐influenced desistance from crime, studies on intervention programs aimed to reduce criminal activity have generally focused on juvenile or young adult offenders. This chapter provides a review and analysis to two kinds of desistance from criminal offending: intervention‐influenced and life‐influenced (without intervention). It focuses on the role and impact of protective factors vis‐à‐vis desistance from criminal behavior. The chapter addresses the subgroups for which there is good evidence, including the question of gender. It considers protective factors and their psychometric properties. The chapter includes a discussion of the evidence relevant the measures and tools that are helpful in making decisions about desistance through both intervention‐influenced and life‐influenced risk reduction. Finally, it provides a critical analysis of the most appropriate assessment practices, and discuss what is ethically sound and empirically supported.
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- Title
- Factors Predicting Desistance from Criminal Behavior and Aggression in Adult Offenders
- Creators
- Kirk HeilbrunDavid DeMatteoRebecca SchiedelVictoria PietruszkaJaymes Fairfax‐ColumboShelby Arnold
- Contributors
- Calvin M Langton (Editor)James R Worling (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Facilitating Desistance from Aggression and Crime, pp 294-313
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hoboken, NJ, USA
- Number of pages
- 20
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Other Identifier
- 991019203665304721