Process of adaptation that allows an offender to develop, in the long term, a sense of belonging and of cohesion with society. It covers several dimensions, notably personal, legal, moral, political, and social.
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Favoring Crime Desistance and Social (Re)Integration of Offenders Through Intersectoral Partnerships
Natacha Brunelle (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada), Julie Carpentier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada), Sylvie Hamel (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada), Isabelle F. Dufour (Université Laval, Canada), and Jocelyn Gadbois (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1286-9.ch019
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to show the importance of intersectorality in partnerships to successfully understand and influence the processes of crime desistance and of social and community (re)integration of people subject to judicial control. It begins with an outline of the “what works” and “how it works” movements and provides tools to help understand such notions as crime desistance, (re)integration, trajectories, and intersectorality. After describing the objectives of the (RÉ)SO 16-35 partnered research project, the authors present various intersectoral collaborative initiatives in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada and indicate what, according to the literature, contributed to their development. The chapter concludes with the identification of two central principles in the development of intersectoral partnerships aiming to favor crime desistance and social and community (re)integration trajectories: a culture of dialogue must be instilled, and the initial objective of the project must be kept in mind.