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The Cost of Confession: Narratives of Guilt and Innocence in Youth Convicted of Sexual Offenses. 认罪的代价：性犯罪青少年的有罪与无罪叙述。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X261488888

Maren Gunnarsdatter Reese, Anja Emilie Kruse

{"title":"The Cost of Confession: Narratives of Guilt and Innocence in Youth Convicted of Sexual Offenses.","authors":"Maren Gunnarsdatter Reese, Anja Emilie Kruse","doi":"10.1177/0306624X261488888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261488888","url":null,"abstract":"Receiving a sexual offense conviction often entails broad social rejection. The resulting pain is managed through telling stories addressing guilt and innocence, justification, and remorse. Building upon narrative interviews with seven young men convicted of sexual offenses, this article demonstrates their intricate post-conviction repair work. Our analysis yielded three types of narratives addressing guilt. In confessional narratives, the participant accepts responsibility and agrees that harm was caused. The moral self is damaged in such stories, but the route to believable desistance appears more viable as they signal normative alignment and a willingness to reform. In other narratives, the participant maintains moral identity through reducing culpability, either by categorically denying that anything happened, or by presenting mitigating factors or justifications that alleviate responsibility. We show how denial can be a double-edged sword. It can help to maintain the moral self, but also hinder believable narration of desistance. Rather than treating these narratives as binary indicators of truth and lies, we examine them as social currency: resources used to construct moral credibility through storytelling. By critically assessing the barriers against denial narratives within the punitive system, we raise the question whether deniers should also be accepted as candidates for rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"306624X261488888"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149138849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Across the Life Course and Into Custody: Understanding Incarceration Pathways of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals. 在整个生命历程和进入监禁：了解聋人和听力障碍者的监禁途径。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X261495485

Dywane Thompson, Hayden P Smith

{"title":"Across the Life Course and Into Custody: Understanding Incarceration Pathways of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals.","authors":"Dywane Thompson, Hayden P Smith","doi":"10.1177/0306624X261495485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261495485","url":null,"abstract":"Incarceration is rarely an isolated event but reflects cumulative institutional and interpersonal disadvantage across the life course. Although life-course criminology explains these trajectories for the general population, it has rarely been applied to d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) individuals, a population that is both understudied and difficult to access. This study addresses that gap using Life History Calendars to reconstruct the pathways of 16 incarcerated D/HH individuals in the southeastern United States. Findings identify early communication deprivation and family isolation as distinct criminogenic transitions. Participants described \"no communication\" environments marked by marginalization and an inability to report harm, with 75% experiencing childhood physical or sexual abuse. These conditions triggered cascading turning points, including school exclusion, peer-driven delinquency, substance use, and barriers to employment. Overall, participants' pathways to incarceration were characterized by intertwined trauma and structural exclusion beginning early in life, underscoring the need for early language access and family-centered interventions.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"306624X261495485"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Explaining Anti-Social Behavior Through Culture? A Scoping Review of the Individualism-Collectivism Construct in Criminology. 用文化解释反社会行为？犯罪学中个人主义-集体主义建构的范围回顾。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X261494224

Masahiro Suzuki

{"title":"Explaining Anti-Social Behavior Through Culture? A Scoping Review of the Individualism-Collectivism Construct in Criminology.","authors":"Masahiro Suzuki","doi":"10.1177/0306624X261494224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261494224","url":null,"abstract":"The individualism-collectivism (I-C) construct has been widely used to explain cross-cultural variation in anti-social behavior (ASB), yet its application in criminology remains conceptually and methodologically underdeveloped. This study is a scoping review of 31 empirical studies to examine how I-C has been operationalized and used to explain ASB across diverse contexts. Five recurring patterns were identified: associations between individualism and ASB; associations between collectivism and ASB; the moderating role of I-C; the use of macro-level cultural indicators; and variation in the conceptualization and measurement of I-C. While individualism is often associated with overt and rule-breaking behaviors and collectivism with normative regulation, these relationships are inconsistent and context-dependent. The review highlights key methodological and conceptual challenges, particularly the risk of cross-level inference when aggregate cultural indicators are used to support individual-level interpretations, as well as ambiguity in how I-C is conceptualized across levels of analysis. To address these issues, the study proposes a multi-level, context-sensitive heuristic framework for organizing cultural, structural, and individual factors and guiding future research on their potential interconnections. The findings contribute to advancing a more theoretically robust and culturally informed criminology.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"306624X261494224"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Are All Callous-Unemotional Youth Alike? Primary and Secondary Variants and the Breadth of Offending. 所有冷酷无情的年轻人都一样吗？主要和次要变异和冒犯的广度。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X261490598

Jamie L Flexon, T Michelle Encalada, Marcia Diaz

{"title":"Are All Callous-Unemotional Youth Alike? Primary and Secondary Variants and the Breadth of Offending.","authors":"Jamie L Flexon, T Michelle Encalada, Marcia Diaz","doi":"10.1177/0306624X261490598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261490598","url":null,"abstract":"Research on psychopathic-like traits in youth has increasingly emphasized heterogeneity rather than treating psychopathy as a unitary construct. Much of this work draws, either explicitly or implicitly, on Karpman's distinction between primary and secondary psychopathy. Primary variants are typically characterized by callous-unemotional features without anxiety, whereas secondary variants show the same affective features but with anxiety. Although this distinction has been widely invoked in developmental and clinical research, relatively little empirical work has examined whether these variant classifications correspond to meaningful differences in the within-individual breadth of harmful behavior among adjudicated youth while controlling for important contextual drivers, such as peer delinquency. Using data from the Pathways to Desistance study, the present research examines whether behavioral breadth is linked to variant type after controlling for known contextual and situational correlates of delinquency. Findings indicated that youth classified as secondary variants exhibited greater offending breadth than primary variants, and this association remained significant after accounting for peer delinquency and other relevant covariates. These findings suggest that partitioning psychopathy into variants offers better explanatory value for understanding behavioral breadth among justice-involved adolescents. Implications for developmental theory as well as policy and intervention efforts targeting high-risk youth are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"306624X261490598"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Clients' Perception of Unhelpful Aspects of Prison Psychologically-Informed Interventions in the UK: A Systematic Review. 客户对英国监狱心理知情干预的无益方面的看法：系统回顾。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X261494214

Marina Hall, Marie Chollier

{"title":"Clients' Perception of Unhelpful Aspects of Prison Psychologically-Informed Interventions in the UK: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Marina Hall, Marie Chollier","doi":"10.1177/0306624X261494214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261494214","url":null,"abstract":"Therapeutic prison research is dominated by outcome studies which often overlook client experiences. Understanding client experience is one way to offer more effective interventions. This paper aims to synthesise the findings of the qualitative literature to gain an understanding of what UK prison clients find unhelpful in psychologically informed interventions. Of the 2,345 publications screened, 32 were included totalling 513 participants. The findings are presented as five constructed categories relating to the physical environment, therapy structure, therapeutic relationship, in session unhelpfulness, and stigma. The review includes potential applications to practise such as the need for cultural representation and attunement, adequately trained and consistent staff, open discussions with clients of potentially unhelpful aspects of interventions and potential improvements to the physical setting. The structure, modality and relational style were helpful to some but unhelpful to others which highlights the need for a personalised or flexible rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to interventions in prison.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"306624X261494214"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Laughing Alone and Punching Self: The Alignment of Laughter in Interviews With Men Convicted of Sexual Offences. 独自大笑和自我攻击：对被判有性犯罪的男性的采访中笑的一致性。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X261489853

Danielle Arlanda Harris, Nathaniel Mitchell

{"title":"Laughing Alone and Punching Self: The Alignment of Laughter in Interviews With Men Convicted of Sexual Offences.","authors":"Danielle Arlanda Harris, Nathaniel Mitchell","doi":"10.1177/0306624X261489853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261489853","url":null,"abstract":"Laughter plays a significant role in narrative storytelling but the extent to which it appears (and is useful) during interviews with justice-involved populations is not well understood. The psychological value of \"gallows\" humor is well established in the buffering of work stress for first responders and emergency personnel, but criminologists are yet to fully explore the presence, or the benefit (if any) of laughter during field interviews. This paper analysed the occurrences of laughter in interviews with North American men incarcerated for sexual violence. We present a preliminary descriptive typology of how laughter emerged during in-depth interviews. The typology applies two analytical lenses in sequence. The first is drawn from humor research and probes the direction of power imbalance in an exchange. It identifies the intended \"butt of the joke\" and proposes a trichotomy of punching up, punching down, and punching self. The second is drawn from interactional pragmatics and identifies the uptake of the laughter. This yields the distinction between \"laughing at/laughing with\" and we propose, \"laughing alone.\" The two lenses reveal together what neither can show alone: not just what participants are laughing about, but also how they are responding to each other's laughter. This preliminary typology offers linguistic rigor to the criminological understanding of interactions.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"306624X261489853"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interpreting the Child Behind the Offense: A Phenomenological Study of Correctional Officers' Perspective of Juvenile Offenders in Indonesia. 解读犯罪背后的孩子：印尼惩教人员对少年犯的现象学研究。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X261495166

Jesika Juliana, Azmawaty Mohamad Nor

{"title":"Interpreting the Child Behind the Offense: A Phenomenological Study of Correctional Officers' Perspective of Juvenile Offenders in Indonesia.","authors":"Jesika Juliana, Azmawaty Mohamad Nor","doi":"10.1177/0306624X261495166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X261495166","url":null,"abstract":"How correctional officers make sense of juvenile offenders may shape both how they understand rehabilitation and how they experience their work. This study explores how correctional officers in Indonesian juvenile correctional institutions construct meaning around juvenile offenders and their roles in rehabilitation. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), in-depth interviews were conducted with eight officers across four institutions. Findings show that officers generally interpreted juvenile offenders through cues of vulnerability, family circumstances, and developmental needs rather than primarily through the threat of their offenses. These interpretations fostered empathetic and caregiving relationships, encouraging officers to extend support beyond their formal responsibilities. At the same time, officers developed a bounded sense of responsibility, recognizing that rehabilitation also depends on factors beyond their control, including family and community support. Experiences of behavioral change and recidivism further shaped how officers understood the meaning and outcomes of their work. Drawing on Weick's theory of sensemaking, the findings illustrate how officers construct workable interpretations of juvenile offending, rehabilitation, and their professional roles amid uncertainty and institutional constraints.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"306624X261495166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149128837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unfeeling or Uncontrolled? PCL-R Subfactor-Specific Anomalies in Psychological Processing During Criminal Behavior. 无情还是失控？犯罪行为过程中心理处理的 PCL-R 子因子特异性异常。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X241281969

Marie Joséphine Hamatschek, Klaus-Peter Dahle

{"title":"Unfeeling or Uncontrolled? PCL-R Subfactor-Specific Anomalies in Psychological Processing During Criminal Behavior.","authors":"Marie Joséphine Hamatschek, Klaus-Peter Dahle","doi":"10.1177/0306624X241281969","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0306624X241281969","url":null,"abstract":"Psychopathy has been linked to insensitivity to negative affect as well as to a self-regulatory deficit. However, studies on these associations rarely involve real-life behavioral data. Using a theory-based content analysis of offense descriptions in criminal verdicts, the affective and regulatory processes that male German prison inmates (N = 109) displayed during criminal norm-violations were coded. Their PCL-R scores were split up into the interpersonal-affective (F1) and the lifestyle-antisocial (F2) factors. As expected, F1 was associated with positive (as opposed to negative) activation affect during criminal behavior (τ = .32, p < .001), while F2 was not. In contrast, F2 was associated with impulsive reactivity (τ = .14, p = .03), while F1 was not. No differential association was found with angry emotionality. Overall, the bifactorial nature of the PCL-R psychopathy construct seems to be reflected in psychological processing during real-life criminal behavior. This might indicate differential criminogenic processes.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"1420-1436"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Practical Social Work Interventions for Community Corrections Offenders' Social Support and Adaptation: A Self-Report Study From China. 实践社会工作干预对社区矫正罪犯社会支持与适应的影响：来自中国的自我报告研究。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X251363248

Xiaoyu Wang, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Zaiton Azman

{"title":"Practical Social Work Interventions for Community Corrections Offenders' Social Support and Adaptation: A Self-Report Study From China.","authors":"Xiaoyu Wang, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Zaiton Azman","doi":"10.1177/0306624X251363248","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0306624X251363248","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the role of social support in the social adaptation of offenders in community corrections, focusing on four dimensions: emotional, appraisal, informational, and instrumental support. Using self-reported survey data from 332 participants in China, findings reveal that all four support dimensions significantly predict social adaptation, with informational support being the strongest predictor. The study emphasizes the importance of social support in improving reintegration outcomes and proposes practical social work interventions. These include direct assistance with essential needs such as food, housing, and healthcare, as well as guidance on employment and legal rights. Emotional well-being strategies and self-evaluation support are also recommended. The findings highlight the need for structured support systems that promote interdisciplinary collaboration to improve rehabilitation outcomes. While rooted in the Chinese context, these insights offer valuable implications for global social work practices in offender reintegration.","PeriodicalId":48041,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology","volume":" ","pages":"1347-1370"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Partial Test of Agnew's General Theory of Crime and Delinquency on Deviant Behaviors Among Albanian Youth. 阿格纽犯罪与犯罪通论对阿尔巴尼亚青年越轨行为的部分检验。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/0306624X251393271

Julinda Cilingiri, Christopher Donner, Myunghoon Roh, HeeRak Park

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