Desistance and Identity Repair: Redemption Narratives as Resistance to Stigma: Table 1

Stone, Rebecca

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“…The persistent oppression of inequality and consequential nature of minor setbacks that severely hinder the capacity of subjective factors to foster desistance are revealed in stark detail (Fader 2013, Giordano 2010, Leverentz 2014, Soyer 2016. Addiction and trauma histories are pronounced among former female prisoners, further complicating their journey to desistance (Leverentz 2014, Sommers et al 2004, Stone 2015. Harris (2011) found that the work to distance oneself from a criminal identity and one's optimism for a conventional future self is often derailed by a lack of structural supports.…”

Section: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Desistance From Offending In the Twementioning

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Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Bersani

Doherty

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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After decades of relative obscurity, research on desistance from offending has experienced an exponential, and much warranted, escalation in attention. This precipitous growth is motivated by the timely alignment of theory, data, and method that characterized the opening of the twenty-first century. Despite the growth of the field, fundamental questions remain. This chapter provides a focused review of key twenty-first-century theoretical and methodological developments on desistance as well as a pointed discussion of critical issues. After outlining the current definitions and longitudinal trends of desistance, we discuss contemporary theories and the studies that inform these theories. We use an organizational schema situating theories in terms of the primacy with which they place structural opportunities or subjective motivations in their explanations of the transition away from offending. We conclude by presenting avenues for advancing research in the areas of definitions, theoretical testing, and bridging the research-policy divide.

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Section: Wwwannualreviewsorg • Desistance From Offending In the Twementioning

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Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Bersani

Doherty

2018

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

133

113

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“…In recent years, criminology has taken a 'narrative turn' (Harding et al 2017;Presser 2016;Presser and Sandberg 2015) and narrative criminology has gained considerable traction in studies of persistent offenders (Carlsson 2013; Steffensmeir and Ulmer 2005) and desistance from crime (Harding et al 2017;Maruna 2001;Stone 2016). Narrative criminology takes a constitutive view of narrative as shaping experience, rather than as an objective record of events or a subjective understanding of those experiences (Presser 2009).…”

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Progression from Cafeteria toà la carteOffending: Scottish Organised Crime Narratives

Densley

McLean

Deuchar

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Howard J Crime Justice

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This article presents insights from qualitative research into organised crime (OC) in Glasgow, Scotland. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 42 current and former offenders with a history of group offending in an attempt to understand variation in the onset, maintenance, and cessation of OC careers. Offending narratives revealed different OC trajectories. Drug dealing was the primary modus operandi of OC groups, but some offenders exhibited versatility and progression to wider criminal activity or a mix of illegitimate activity and legitimate business. Implications for future policing strategies and suggested additional research are outlined in response to these findings.

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“…Redemption narratives derive from the concept of narrative identity, which examines the internal reconstruction of the individual's past and imagined self. Narrative identity theorizes how people tell stories of overcoming hardship and atoning for wrongdoing not only as a form of altruism to promote life lessons for future generations, but also a mechanism for reconstructing a purposeful and moral identity for themselves (McAdams, 2006;McAdams & McLean, 2013;Stone, 2016;Ransom, 2006;Singer, 2004;McAdams et al, 2001). Creating narrative identity is like conveying a life story accompanied with suffering, development and possible outcomes (Singer, 2004); it consists of using personal narratives of one's autobiographical past to convey "who they are now, how they came to be and where they think their lives may be going in the future" (McAdams & McLean, 2013, p. 233).…”

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“…Therefore, it is important to examine narrative identity within an interactionist framework because it reveals how meanings are shaped and formed by social interactions and in different contexts, such as the mainstream media (Stone, 2016;Van den Hoonaard, 2015). Interactionism demonstrates semantic conclusions about an individual drawn from the episodic information they express in their stories (McAdams & McLean, 2013).…”

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“…Additionally, I explore the folk devil redemption narrative through the concept of narrative identity, which examines the internally evolving process of one's life story through reconstructing moral goodness from their former self (McAdams, 2006;McAdams & McLean, 2013;Stone, 2016;Ransom, 2006;Singer, 2004;McAdams et al, 2001). I postulate how redemption occurs in a two-step process of confronting the self and confronting others.…”

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Forgive Me Child for I Have Sinned: Anti-Vaxxer Folk Devil Mothers and Narratives of Redemption

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Folk devils" is a term coined by Stanley Cohen (1972) to characterize social groups who come to be seen as threats to society. The concept has been theorized in many ways-from showcasing voiceless outsiders, to outspoken individuals defending themselves. The thesis troubles Cohen's original concept by showing an emerging folk devil narrative of redemption, examined through the case studies of two anti-vaxxer mothers who publically confess wrongdoing of their previous anti-vaccination stance. These acts of public confession, I show, are highly mediatized. Drawing from McAdams's (2006) theory of narrative identity, I pose critical questions of how redemption narratives not only challenge previous notions of folk devils, but also explore how they impact discourses of moral regulation. This study finds that folk devil redemption narratives illustrate identity reconstruction through the liminal state of exiting, imply self-policing mechanisms of conformity, and specifically with regard to the topic of the case studies, offer effective anecdotal strategies for vaccine promotion.iii Thank you all! iv

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Desistance and Identity Repair: Redemption Narratives as Resistance to Stigma: Table 1

Cited by 102 publications

References 45 publications

Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Desistance from Offending in the Twenty-First Century

Progression from Cafeteria toà la carteOffending: Scottish Organised Crime Narratives

Forgive Me Child for I Have Sinned: Anti-Vaxxer Folk Devil Mothers and Narratives of Redemption

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