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Research Article

The Road to Desistance: The Relationship between Formal Institutions of Social Control, Informal Social Bonds, and Intermittency in Offending

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Pages 656-674 | Received 14 Feb 2023, Accepted 14 Sep 2023, Published online: 16 Oct 2023

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