identified to be connected to reoffending. (Brezina & Topalli 2012) in addition, Wood et al (2013) also suggests that having attitudes that support and anticipate crime can be just as contributory to reoffending as unemployment and homelessness.
3.5. Social networks
Keeping relationships with friends who have anti- social behaviour has also been identified to support, maintain and promote offending behaviour within offender groups. Evidence suggests that connections with peers can negatively influence individuals to reoffend, although it goes on states that this reduces with age. (Cobbina, et al., 2010).
3.6. Lack of/poor family and intimate relationships
Borzycki and Makkai, (2007) suggests that the period of imprisonment may in itself have had many effects on many offenders, such as losing family and intimate relationships. Research has shown that offenders who have families that are supportive to them as well as having intimate relationship are more likely to desist …show more content…
Desistance Definition
“Desistance from crime, the long-term abstinence from criminal behaviour among those for whom offending had become a pattern of behaviour, is something of an enigma. Producing or encouraging desistance is the implicit focus of much criminal
Prison does not have a good record in reducing reoffending. Prison Reform Trust, (2015) suggests that of the people serving a sentence in prison 45 percent of them will go on to re-offend within 12 months. Of the individuals who were in prison in June 2014 the rate of re-offending was high at 27.5 percent Justice Policy, practice and research; it is one of the key outcomes that justice interventions are designed to achieve and much research treats reducing or ending offending as a key measure of effectiveness.” (McNeil et al., 2012, p.3)
3.11. Age and Maturity
A study by Van Mastrigt and Farrington, (2009) shows that ex-offenders tend to desist from re-offending as they
3.5. Social networks
Keeping relationships with friends who have anti- social behaviour has also been identified to support, maintain and promote offending behaviour within offender groups. Evidence suggests that connections with peers can negatively influence individuals to reoffend, although it goes on states that this reduces with age. (Cobbina, et al., 2010).
3.6. Lack of/poor family and intimate relationships
Borzycki and Makkai, (2007) suggests that the period of imprisonment may in itself have had many effects on many offenders, such as losing family and intimate relationships. Research has shown that offenders who have families that are supportive to them as well as having intimate relationship are more likely to desist …show more content…
Desistance Definition
“Desistance from crime, the long-term abstinence from criminal behaviour among those for whom offending had become a pattern of behaviour, is something of an enigma. Producing or encouraging desistance is the implicit focus of much criminal
Prison does not have a good record in reducing reoffending. Prison Reform Trust, (2015) suggests that of the people serving a sentence in prison 45 percent of them will go on to re-offend within 12 months. Of the individuals who were in prison in June 2014 the rate of re-offending was high at 27.5 percent Justice Policy, practice and research; it is one of the key outcomes that justice interventions are designed to achieve and much research treats reducing or ending offending as a key measure of effectiveness.” (McNeil et al., 2012, p.3)
3.11. Age and Maturity
A study by Van Mastrigt and Farrington, (2009) shows that ex-offenders tend to desist from re-offending as they