What’s Strong: Cultivating Strengths Beyond Desistance Over the past decades, desistance has increasingly been understood not as a singular event of permanent cessation of offending, but as a gradual, non‑linear process involving shifts in behavior, identity, and social relationships (Bushway & Paternoster, 2013). Early work tended to focus primarily on whether people reoffended or not, whereas contemporary perspectives distinguish between primary desistance (temporary abstinence from offending), secondary desistance (a shift in self‑identity toward a non‑offending self), and tertiary desistance (societal recognition and acceptance of that change; Maruna, 2001). Despite being able to … [Read more...] about Strength‑Based “MindSport” Programme: Empowering Youth Identity Transformation in Hong Kong Corrections