CRJU 591C Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Crystallization, Qualitative Property
5 Jul 2018
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Desistance – Part 2
Lecture Outline
Informal Social Controls
Theorists:
Bonds in adulthood → turning points
Turning points = termination points
Transition to non-offender
Knifing off the past from the present
Routine activities
Acquiring maturity
New opportunities
Human agency
“A major turning point has the potential to open a system the way a key has the
potential to open a lock…action is necessary to complete the turning” (Abott,
1997, p. 102)
“Desistance by default”
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Cognitive Transformations
Theorists:
Identity change
Reflexivity
Definition:
“Hooks for change”
Shift in the actor’s openness to change
Actor is exposed to a particular hook or set of hooks for change where s/he can envision a
better life
Actor can begin to envision a conventional “replacement self” to take the place of the
deviant or marginal self of the past
Transformation in the way the actor views the deviant behavior or lifestyle itself
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