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    Starting to Stop: Young Offenders' Desistance from Crime

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    This paper explores the complexities of the interplay between structural and agentic changes in 21 young offenders' lives as they start to stop offending. The young people's ability to desist from crime was dependent upon their engagement with a 'hook for change', their development of prosocial relationships and 'knifing off' of elements of their offending past, the extent of their identity change, and their confidence about desistance. Desistance was less likely in the absence of a 'hook' and where offenders were running a 'condemnation script'. The study challenges previous research that argues that desistance from crime in adolescence is unlikely

    Migration und Familie

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    Dieses Kapital widmet sich der Familie im Kontext von Migration, Integrationund Teilhabe. Es thematisiert nach einem Überblick zur Definition und Funktionvon Familie theoretische und empirische Befunde zur Rolle der Familie bei derMigrationsentscheidung und zur Familienmigration, zu den familialen Prozessender Partnerwahl und des generativen Verhaltens sowie zur Bedeutung der Familieim Integrations- und Minoritätskontext und geht dabei auch auf die transnationaleEinbettung von Familien mit Zuwanderungsgeschichte ei
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