English to Spanish Other Law (general) Shrink from

Hola!

Estoy traduciendo un texto sobre las cárceles en EE.UU.

Tengo dudas con el término "shrink from"

Context:
Prison and the deskilled labor market: In the first place, the penal system contributes
directly to regulating the lower segments of the labor market — and it does so in a manner more coercive and consequential than labor legislation, social insurance schemes, and other administrative rules, many of which do not cover insecure work. Its effect on this front is threefold. First, the stupendous prevalence and escalation of penal sanctions helps to discipline the reticent fractions of the working class by raising the cost of strategies of resistance to
desocialized wage labor via “exit” into the informal economy. Faced with aggressive policing, severe courts, and the likelihood of brutally long prison sentences for drug offenses and recidivism, many **shrink from **getting or staying involved in the illegal commerce of the street and submit instead to the dictate of insecure employment. For some of those coming out of “the pen,” the tight mesh of postcorrectional supervision increases pressure to opt for the “straight” life anchored in work, when available

Mi versión:
Ante los agresivos, los tribunales estrictos, y la posibilidad de sentencias a prisión prolongadas por delitos vinculados con drogas y reincidencia, muchos vacilan entre obtener o quedar implicados en el comercio callejero ilegal y someterse al mandato de en un empleo inseguro.

Siento que hay algo que no estoy viendo. Desde ya muy agradecida!