Effective Interventions in the Lives of Criminal Offenders

Part I. Structural Location

1. Religious Participation and Criminal Behavior
Byron R. Johnson

2. Marriage as an Intervention in the Lives of Criminal Offenders
Jessica M. Craig, Brie Diamond, Alex R. Piquero

Part II. Human Agency

3. Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation
Peggy C. Giordano

4. Identity and Desistance from Crime
Shawn D. Bushway, Raymond Paternoster

Part III. Situated Choice

5. Recent Research on Disengaging from Gangs: Implications for Practice
David C. Pyrooz, Scott H. Decker

Part IV. Cross-Cultural Interventions

6. The Effectiveness of Marriage as an “Intervention” in the Life Course: Evidence from the Netherlands
Bianca E. Bersani, Marieke Schellen

7. Reintegration as a Right and the Rites of Reintegration: A Comparative Review of De-Stigmatization Practices
Shadd Maruna

8. Epilogue
Peter Cordella, John A. Humphrey

Keywords: Social Sciences, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Social Policy