Desistance in action: An interactional approach to criminal justice practice and desistance from offending

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In my view this article is important because it looks at how criminal justice practitioners interact with people convicted of criminal offences. Previous research tends not to show this level of detail in terms of how people actually talk to each other. It also helps to make connections between research that involved interviewing people who have been involved in offending and research that focuses on the key factors for interventions that address offending behaviour.

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