Examining the Role of Meaningful Work for Desistance Among Justice-Involved Emerging Adults
Published online on April 17, 2026
Abstract
Emerging Adulthood, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 749-765, August 2026.
Employment has long been recognized as an important turning point for facilitating the desistance process among young people. Criminologists, however, often theorize and operationalize employment in a binary nature: having a job or not. Evidence from the ...
Employment has long been recognized as an important turning point for facilitating the desistance process among young people. Criminologists, however, often theorize and operationalize employment in a binary nature: having a job or not. Evidence from the ...