Becoming Normal - Certification as a Stage in Exiting From Crime

• NCJ Number: 82265
• Journal: Deviant Behavior Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Dated: (January-March 1982) Pages: 137-153
• Author(s): T Meisenhelder
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 17 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Certification is the final stage in exiting from a career in crime. This paper presents the major elements in the process of certification as revealed by an analysis of a set of life-history interviews.

Abstract

This look at the process of certification uncovers that, like deviance, conventionality is a social phenomenon constructing from both social action and societal reaction. (Publisher abstract)