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The Intersection of Developmental and Life-Course (DLC) Perspectives and Corrections: Viewing the Prison Experience as a Turning Point

Lugo, Melissa
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613748135844868

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2020, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Criminal Justice.
The prison experience provides a unique context where the notion of offender change takes on a different role compared to conventional “turning points,” such as marriage and employment. However, developmental and life-course (DLC) perspectives place little emphasis on inmate experiences despite incarceration being a major life event. Fitting correctional theory into the developmental framework and embedding the inmate in a broader context can enhance how we view desistance by identifying the key risk factors across both these perspectives. Using aspects from both DLC and correctional perspectives, this dissertation disentangles the “black box” of the prison experience by examining how the completion of programming that aligns with key aspects of the turning point literature, such as family programming, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and prison industry work programs, impact incarceration. This dissertation also provides an innovative way of viewing program completion that is both informed by the DLC literature and goes beyond whether program completion predicts a lower likelihood of offending, but more so how it potentially attenuates the impact of pre-prison characteristics (i.e., risk factors) and the structural conditions of incarceration (i.e., security level, sentence length, movement, waitlist status).
Christopher Sullivan, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Joshua Cochran, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Paul Nieuwbeerta, PhD (Committee Member)
John Wooldredge, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
238 p.
Criminology
Turning Points; Incarceration; Life-Course; Prison Programs; Recidivism

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  • Lugo, M. (2020). The Intersection of Developmental and Life-Course (DLC) Perspectives and Corrections: Viewing the Prison Experience as a Turning Point [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613748135844868

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lugo, Melissa. The Intersection of Developmental and Life-Course (DLC) Perspectives and Corrections: Viewing the Prison Experience as a Turning Point. 2020. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613748135844868.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lugo, Melissa. "The Intersection of Developmental and Life-Course (DLC) Perspectives and Corrections: Viewing the Prison Experience as a Turning Point." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613748135844868

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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