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Statistics can be misleading to society through the perception of high recidivism rates means offenders aren't learning (not actually the case, can be more so a sign of desperation) 

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Statistics can be misleading to society through the perception of high recidivism rates means offenders aren't learning (not actually the case, can be more so a sign of desperation) 

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Public Perception swayed by government and politicians. Their views need to be changed for desistance to be supported by others

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There’s a clear struggle between society and offenders to accept and help each other conform to the needs that can make a better world. There is massive discrimination against offenders

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society labels ex-offenders when it comes to integration, rehabilitation, housing, employment further ensuring that ex-offenders will never truly feel accepted in the world, and that current offenders in prison will not believe in the possibility or hope for change

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Society is the problem and for rehabilitation to work, society needs to support ex-offenders that are willing to change so they do not feel defeated and encourages them to make the change.

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Desistance can be contagious, if you see a fellow friend/role model desisting from crime it can encourage you to change as a lot of ex-offenders do want to change they just need help and motivation to do so.

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Sometimes you just have to do things by yourself to get things done, can only get help if you want it

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there is a clear struggle between society and offenders to accept each other and help each other.

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Some people can have every good intention to change, but sometimes it just doesn’t happen. They can’t, because of outside agencies like employment, media and lack of connections from loved ones etc

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education is a liberation - an institution that helps them back into society and freedom away from prison and offending

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Society does not focus on rehabilitation and does not help offenders once they get out to integrate back into normal life such as finding work

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Just how untrue the fact is that your prison time ends once you leave the prison and how it continues to loom over you for so much longer

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Even if people do go through desistance that doesn’t always mean they are accepted into society

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Hope can go a long way if any from of officer or helper can give an offender or ex offender some sort of hope can go a long way

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society is bent on revenge rather than rehabilitation

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Desistance is contagious, they see someone change there offending behaviour and they want to be like them

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society doesn’t support desistance - there are little acceptance and support from society for offenders who are trying to turn against crime m

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people need to be given the opportunity to change

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treating prisoners with respect. have support groups and programmes tailored to the prisoners needs and helping them through their pathway to desistance

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Provide support emotionally and also socially after release from prison to not slip back into repeat reoffending

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Desistance is a personal journey for those with previous offending history with the goal of abstaining from crime

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Helps give disadvantaged people options and choices they wouldn’t have and helps identify the persons self worth

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Pains of imprisonment - It's hard enough for prisoners they need a helping hand to stay afloat.

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The process is different for everyone, but from peoples different journeys it can raise awareness within the CJS and provide ideas of how to encourage it And support those trying. E.g peer support groups will help to build and maintain relationships

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It matters as it reduces the amount of people coming into prison and is the process of them needing the criminal justice system less and less overtime .

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less stigma around the label as being an offender

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Helps reduce re offending rates - helping create a safer environment for the public

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Less people in prison as there are high numbers of reoffending prisoners

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can reduce recidivism rates. by successfully reforming behaviour and reducing the want for offenders to commit again, their path of desistence will allow them to live a life without crime

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By giving offenders the facilities to be able to integrate back into society and giving necessary resources to support them like therapy etc.

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Treat them like humans. Respect for respect.

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Deviating from a pattern that does not benefit the person or others to achieve something better for themselves

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the journey which takes you through ups and downs but ultimately to eventually stop offending

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It shows that prisoners can change but also how to help people as individuals within the criminal justice system.

Understand that within the system people can change and can stop further criminalisation of people such as young people.

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holding the ability to resist re-offending

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Helps people to become ex offenders rather than re offenders.

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have programmes tailored to different reasonings behind offending. no 2 offenders will have the same experience in prison and crime and they won’t learn the same way

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Someone with previous offences in the process of no longer offending

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It’s a way for offenders to have hope in not reoffending

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Tax payer money - less people in prison means the need for less prisons and saves money.

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Because it helps people to realise that it is a legitimate option in terms of reforming and reduces the number of people in prison

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Desistance refers to the non linear journey/ road that people (offenders for example) follow in order to change and not repeat past damaging behaviour. It is the conscious choice everyday to not fall back onto a pattern of past behaviour.

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Means less people in prison costing them less money

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by identifying what someone might need to help to no longer offend e.g. stable job, social circle etc

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The process of an individual stopping offending from primary desistance (the action of stopping) to secondary desistance (others believing that they have stopped)

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Is the process of a person stopping themselves from offending again .

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Learning and developing new skills to stop offending behaviour

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A conscious choice that an ex-offender makes to stop offending.

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desistance is the process of stopping / abstaining further and current offending.

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Provide emotional support to people desisting in order to make them feel heard

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desistance is a journey that people take to stop offending. It’s not always a smooth journey there will be ups and downs

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desistance is the journey to reintegrate into society and its norms once an individuals sentence has finished in prison l

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the journey to no longer offending

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Stopping yourself from committing crime which is often seen as being done through therapy and psychologically like means