Looking for ‘emotional balance’ in desistance from crime: Testimonies from justice-involved individuals in French-speaking Switzerland

Q2 Social Sciences Howard Journal of Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI:10.1111/hojo.12532
Aurélie Stoll
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This article is based on 48 interviews and five writing testimonies of 23 men convicted, incarcerated and released from high-security prisons in the French part of Switzerland. Through a longitudinal and phenomenological perspective, this contribution explores the role of affective states in desistance from crime. The findings show that giving up crime requires navigating through three ‘emotional seeds’ that qualify the most significant affective states of the desistance process: distress; disillusionment; and hope. Thus, this research develops the notion of ‘emotional balance’ in desistance from crime, which consists of being neither overwhelmed by one's feelings nor repressing them.

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本文基于对23名男子的48次采访和5次书面证词,这些人被判有罪,被监禁,并从瑞士法国部分的高安全监狱释放。通过纵向和现象学的角度来看,这一贡献探讨了情感状态在阻止犯罪中的作用。研究结果表明,放弃犯罪需要经历三种“情绪种子”,它们决定了放弃犯罪过程中最重要的情感状态:痛苦;幻灭;和希望。因此,本研究提出了“情绪平衡”的概念,即既不被自己的感情所压倒,也不压抑自己的感情。
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期刊介绍: The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice is an international peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high quality theory, research and debate on all aspects of the relationship between crime and justice across the globe. It is a leading forum for conversation between academic theory and research and the cultures, policies and practices of the range of institutions concerned with harm, security and justice.
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