Desistance as a developmental process: A comparison of static and dynamic approaches
Desistance as a developmental process: A comparison of static and dynamic approaches
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1023050103707
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发表时间：
2003-06-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Krohn, MD
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作者：
Bushway, SD;Thornberry, TP;Krohn, MD
发展犯罪学领域的新研究促使研究人员将中止重新定义为在生命过程中展开的行为过程。这种方法更多地强调人们达到非冒犯状态的途径，而不是强调非冒犯状态本身。这种概念的重新定义对我们如何在纵向数据中衡量阻力有一定的影响。在本文中，我们认为传统的测量方法与这一观点是不一致的，我们提出了一种基于发展犯罪学前提的替代测量方法。虽然不是完美的，但我们认为，动态衡量更好地描述了中止过程的关键要素。这两种方法都是使用罗切斯特青年发展研究的数据实施的，罗切斯特青年发展研究是一项对青年罪犯的纵向研究。我们证明了这两种方法将不同的人识别为停止者。此外，我们认为，暂停的动态定义更有希望提供对作为暂停过程的行为焦点的变化的洞察。
New research in the field of developmental criminology has led researchers to reconceptualize desistance as a behavioral process that unfolds over the life course. This approach puts more emphasis on the pathways by which people reach the state of non-offending, and less emphasis on the state of non-offending itself. This reconceptualization has implications for how we measure desistance in longitudinal data. In this paper, we suggest that the traditional measurement approach is inconsistent with this view, and we present an alternative measurement approach based on the premises of developmental criminology. Although not perfect, we argue that the dynamic measure better describes the key elements of the process of desistance. Both approaches are implemented using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, a longitudinal study of youthful offenders. We demonstrate that the two approaches identify different people as desistors. Moreover, we argue that the dynamic definition of desistance has more promise for providing insight into the changes that are the behavioral focus of the desistance process.