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In this chapter I explores interventions designed to alter a criminal lifestyle. Principles derived from individuals who have changed on their own, a process known as natural recovery or unassisted change, are used to construct a model of assisted change. The three phases of lifestyle change (preparation, action, and follow-up) are outlined and then applied to the case history first introduced in Chap. 6. Three principles from nonlinear dynamical systems theory (sensitive dependence on initial conditions, bifurcation, and self-organization) figure prominently in this chapter.
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Walters, G.D. (2017). Changing the Criminal Lifestyle. In: Modelling the Criminal Lifestyle . Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57771-5_8
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