desistance , auch: desistence

I've been reading articles on juvenile crime all night, and the experts call it the "desistance phenomenon."

They have not yet become men, those terrible ones: may they preach desistance from life, and pass away themselves!

Football and rugby were at the core of the crime desistance programme but participants also had to meet with victims of crime.

The report calls for gang leaders to be served with new gang activity desistance orders (gados), which could see them jailed for breaches.

Criminologists recognize a natural process of desistance called "aging out" of delinquency, through which a person desists their delinquent behavior through maturation and experience.

The concept of neutrality in conflicts is distinct from non-alignment, i.e., the willful desistance from military alliances in order to preserve neutrality in case of war, and perhaps with the hope of preventing a war altogether.

Their statements on the Dizon paper were confided to Manila Times by the Court of Appeals justices even before the March 12, 2009 affidavit of desistance manifested by Suzette to the appellate court.

Perhaps the mover in the house was watching from a window, and plucked up courage at the sight of this desistance; or perhaps, where he lurked trembling in the back parts of the villa, reason in its own right had conquered his alarms.

There is an attempt when the offender commences the commission of a felony directly or overt acts, and does not perform all the acts of execution which should produce the felony by reason of some cause or accident other than his own spontaneous desistance.