Theorising desistance-promotion in circle processes: the role of community in identity transformation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the desistance research thus far, a relatively consistent finding is that those who desist from crime have gone through a transformation in identity. One means of aiding in this process that has been under-researched is the restorative circle process. The current article provides a theoretical framework for how circle processes may enable prisoners to undergo identity transformations. The redemption narrative is discussed in terms of how prisoners' participation in circle processes may help to fulfil primary goods by uncovering their true selves, regaining agency over their lives and providing avenues for generativity. Crucial to the relationship between circle processes and the redemption narrative is that interpersonal relationships and participation in community may catalyse identity transformation. As such, this article argues that both personal and social identity are relevant to this process; becoming part of a community during a circle process can help enculturate prisoners to prosocial values and reciprocity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".