When Recovery Meets Desistance: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Integration & Practical Application
出版項
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021
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169 p
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: B
Advisor: Bachman, Ronet
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2021
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Individuals embedded within the criminal justice system experience substance use dependencies at a disproportionate rate compared to the general population. However, there exists limited research on how drug use, treatment, crime, and desistance interact. Theories of recovery and desistance share various overlaps, namely a focus on identity, motivation, and structural and social supports, but have rarely been comprehensively studied together. In this dissertation, I address the following related questions to fill this gap: (1) Does recovery follow the identity theory of desistance (ITD)? If so, how do the two processes overlap and depart, if at all? (2) How did individuals perceive their treatment experiences 20 years after their initial engagement and what roles did treatment episodes play in their journey? (3) What can be learned from temporally mapping out the processes of identity transformation and recovery over 20 years? To answer these questions, I used the ITD as a framework to integrate addiction and criminological research. The data used for this project was sampled from the ROADS Diverge dataset and consisted of 55 in-depth interviews that were coded and analyzed, as well as a subsample of 23 that were systematically timeline mapped. The results of this analysis provided an interdisciplinary theoretical integration that was able to inform best practices for treatment content, criminal justice responses, understanding recovery as it relates to desistance, and how identity and agency was at the heart of both of these changes
