In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in
shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal …

Extant theoretical work on desistance from crime has emphasized social processes such as
involvement in adult social bonds or pro-social relationships, with very little attention given to …

This article draws on the life stories of a friendship group of men in their 40s who offended
together in their youth and early adulthood. By exploring these interrelated narratives, we …

The “marriage effect” is one of the most widely studied topics of life course criminology. The
contemporary consensus is that marriage promotes desistance from crime. Most of the 58 …

The relationship between age and crime is one of the oldest known in the criminological
literature. This entry describes research on what is known as the “age–crime curve,” first by …

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an international issue that social and criminal justice
workers will encounter regularly. It has been identified that men can, and do stop using, or …

The authors analyzed whether the effect of marriage on recidivism varied by spousal
criminality. For this purpose, they used propensity score matching and full population data …

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 …

Exit from street gangs has received increased attention in recent years; however, a number
of important questions regarding the process of leaving remain unanswered. Relying on …

Abstract Objective Paternoster and Bushway (2009) have recently proposed and developed
(Bushway and Paternoster 2012, 2013) an identity theory of desistance (ITD). The current …