“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