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
Rather, they use the threat of certain but nonsevere punishments to encourage people to find their own paths to desistance.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021
The most frequently cited desistance statistic is that around 80 percent of kids who experience gender dysphoria will go on to be cisgender adults.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021
The idea that many trans kids will grow out of it is referred to in research as desistance.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2021
This comparative want of enjoyment which we have named as a cause of early desistance from artificial exercises, is also a cause of inferiority in the effects they produce on the system.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
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