Drugs and Crime Deviant Pathways by Candido Da Agra Serge Brochu

Author:Candido Da Agra, Serge Brochu [Candido Da Agra, Serge Brochu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781351942737
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Regression of deviant lifestyles

The deviant lifestyle trajectories of the young people we encountered are scattered with periods when involvement in delinquency or drug use temporarily or ‘permanently’ declined. Qualitative studies which treat the decline of deviant lifestyles more or less directly tend to be more specifically concerned with social rehabilitation of homeless or drug-addicted adults (Castel et al., 1992; Racine and Mercier, 1995), and young delinquents and drug addicts are underrepresented in them.

Furthermore, most studies (quantitative and qualitative) which examine the decline of deviant lifestyles are concerned with the more general reduction in delinquency that comes with age, particularly at the end of adolescence and after the age of 30 (Gauss curve) (Hirshi and Gottfredson, 1983; Le Blanc, 1994a). Their focus is on a more long-term regression (decrease), generally observable in adulthood. For our part, we are as interested in the temporary periods of regression in deviant lifestyles on young respondents’ trajectories as in the more durable ones.

The inventoried reasons linked to this decrease in involvement in delinquency or drug use are many and varied depending on the individual, whether it be a question of maturation, values, employment, life events or something else. (Ouimet and Le Blanc, 1993; Sampson and Laub, 1993; Brochu, 1995; Grapendaal et al, 1995; Kelley et al, 1997; Vaughn and Long, 1999). Here, we will examine the young people’s point of view with regard to the reasons which led them to decrease their involvement in deviant behaviour at certain times.

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