desistance
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Voting is “part of a package of pro-social behavior that is linked to desistance from crime.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2022
The idea that many trans kids will grow out of it is referred to in research as desistance.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021
In three of the studies, participants who didn’t follow up with the researchers in adolescence or adulthood were assumed to be desistant, again inaccurately raising the desistance percentage.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021
It’s a metric inconsistent with what we know about the rocky reality of desistance.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2019
A year of existence Has passed to the distance Ne'er to return: To the right was resistance, From duty desistance, Nor would I learn.
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher
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