Exploring and explaining non-compliance with community supervision

Weaver, Beth and Piacentini, Laura and Moodie, Kristina and Barry, Monica (2021) Exploring and explaining non-compliance with community supervision. British Journal of Criminology, 61 (2). pp. 434-455. ISSN 0007-0955

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    Abstract

    Despite a developed theoretical and empirical body of research into the dynamics of compliance with community supervision, the phenomenon of non-compliance has received surprisingly less attention. This article explores the perspectives and experiences of 93 people in Scotland who were breached or recalled for non-compliance with the community sentences or post-release licences they were subject to. Drawing on this analysis, we advance an integrated, theoretically explanatory and empirically-informed model demonstrating the contributions of, and interplay between, three key elements we identified as shaping non-compliance: motivational postures and attitudinal stances, and their underlying mechanisms; various systemic, structural and social influences that bind the exercise of agency and shape situations of actions; and the impacts and effects of people’s interactions with authorities.

    ORCID iDs

    Weaver, Beth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1711-1068, Piacentini, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3817-6012, Moodie, Kristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8279-1464 and Barry, Monica;
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