Once a criminal, not always a criminal: What we know about desistance
Hardly Working with Brent Orrell
English - August 12, 2020 19:30 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBCareers Business Education Self-Improvement Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Contrary to the popular assumption that people who engage in criminal activity at some point in their life will always be dangerous and criminally-oriented, the data show that the majority of people who leave prison will never become re-incarcerated. Brent talks to Shawn Bushway, a criminologist at the University of Albany and a Senior Policy […]
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Contrary to the popular assumption that people who engage in
criminal activity at some point in their life will always be dangerous and
criminally-oriented, the data show that the majority of people who leave prison
will never become re-incarcerated.
Brent talks to Shawn Bushway,
a criminologist at the University of Albany and a Senior Policy Researcher at
the Rand Corporation, about the maturational model of criminal desistance, mass
incarceration, and recidivism.
The post Once a criminal, not always a criminal: What we know about desistance appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.