Key Point

Drawing on the findings from Shadd Maruna’s important qualitative research conducted with desisting ex-offenders, we designed a suite of questionnaire-style measures to assess offenders’ internal beliefs and attitudes about change.  In order to understand the process of change, we need to access what offenders are thinking as they change, and how they pursue their own process of change.

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We reported on this work in two publications, see below.  These measures are also a cornerstone piece of our lab’s National Institute of Justice-funded work on offender decision-making and desistance, forthcoming.

Access the Questionnaires

We regularly receive requests from colleagues who would like to view the questionnaires in order to consider using them in their own research.  We are quite pleased to share this work and participate in advancing research in this area!

We encourage you to contact us (see contact information at the bottom of this page) to obtain copies of the current version of these questionnaires.  Please also be aware that it is our intention to maintain our own database of all cases that complete our measures (stripped of identifying information) for research and publication purposes, so we can report on cross-sample differences/similarities.  If you decide to use these measures in your work, we would be excited to develop a Memorandum of Agreement with you, and/or the agency where you collect your data.

Publications

Lloyd, C. D., & Serin, R. C. (2012). Agency and outcome expectancies for crime desistance: Measuring offenders’ personal beliefs about change. Psychology, Crime, and Law, 6, 543-565. doi:10.1080/1068316X.2010.511221

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