2022
“I’m Going to be Successful Someday”: Women’s Personal Projects to Improve Their Lives, and Implications for Clarifying the Nature of Agency in Criminological Theories of Desistance
Hoskins K. “I’m Going to be Successful Someday”: Women’s Personal Projects to Improve Their Lives, and Implications for Clarifying the Nature of Agency in Criminological Theories of Desistance. Feminist Criminology 2022, 17: 185-205. DOI: 10.1177/15570851211064831.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPersonal projectsProsocial lifeNature of agencyDesistance researchWomen's agencyCorrectional responsesCriminological theoriesPsychological theoriesQualitative inquiryProject meaningsSocial supportAgenciesProsocial opportunitiesProjectDesistanceCriminologyLifeParoleProbationImplicationsWomenInterviewsMotivationInquiryPursuit
2019
It Depends on the Situation: Women’s Identity Transformation in Prison, Jail, and Substance Abuse Treatment Settings
Hoskins K, Cobbina J. It Depends on the Situation: Women’s Identity Transformation in Prison, Jail, and Substance Abuse Treatment Settings. Feminist Criminology 2019, 15: 340-358. DOI: 10.1177/1557085119878268.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchIdentity developmentLife-story narrativesSubstance abuse treatment experiencesCognitive transformation theoryIdentity transformationSubstance abuse treatment settingsWomen's identity developmentSubstance abuse treatmentNarrative identity theoryIdentity theorySituational differencesIdentity changeAbuse treatmentPositive developmentPains of imprisonmentTreatment settingsCorrectional systemCorrectional policyTreatment experiencePrisonQualitative analysisJailTheoryImplicationsExperience