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Criminal Lifestyle from the Biographical Perspective of Convicted Men and Women
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The concept of ‘lifestyle’ has become popular in recent years. It is used in the language of marketing and advertisements, colourful magazines and on social networking sites. Lifestyle theories were developed in social sciences between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even Max Weber was among the many theorists. The concept of ‘criminal lifestyle’ to some extent refers to these earlier concepts. Distinguishing it from the general concept of ‘lifestyle’ allows the reasons that motivate people to commit crimes to be better understood. The use of quantitative methods to examine the criminal lifestyle theory has not led to an accurate understanding of the genesis of these phenomena and behaviours and their practical use. This was because the results largely did not reflect the socio-psychological determinants of criminal lifestyle. Therefore, qualitative methods, including the biographical method, should be considered the best to use. The biographical method consists of getting to know the entire biographies of convicts from the earliest years of their childhood to the present days. The tools and techniques used include interviews with convicted persons and the analysis of various written sources, including documents created by respondents and prison files. The research method that involves getting to know the biographies of men and women serving prison sentences shows that the criminal lifestyle theory has practical application in the classification of criminal behaviour. The process of social rehabilitation using the biographical method and the analysis of the research material obtained based on the criminal lifestyle theory seems to be so effective that it can be used in practice with great success. There is only one condition: those who use it must have appropriate practical skills.
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lifestyle, criminal lifestyle, biography, curriculum vitae, prison, rehabilitation, imprisonment, men, women, recidivists, crimeMost read articles by the same author(s)
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