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A community-based approach to the reduction of sexual reoffending : circles of support and accountability /
"A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and reintegrate into the community, is proven to be ef...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia, PA :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Community-Based Approach to the Reduction of Sexual Reoffending: Circles of Support and Accountability; Acknowledgements; A note on terminology; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Beginning of the Circle: The History of Circles of Support and Accountability; Chapter 2 A Man like Others? What We Know About Sex Offenders; Types of child sex offender; What are the causes of offending?; The effects of treatment; Chapter 3 Managing the Problem: Working withPeople Convicted of Sexual Offences; Chapter 4 Within the Circle: The Realities ofPractice; Chapter 5 The Men's Stories and the Volunteers' Stories
- The Men's StoriesGerry Hurley: 'Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me'; David Dawson: 'It's like lighting candles in a very dark room'; Ian Morrison: 'I will not produce any more victims'; George Davies: 'The future is now a day-to-daysort of thing'; The Volunteers' Stories; Laurence Clark: 'We're all capable ofanything given certain circumstances'; Elizabeth Cowie: 'Offenders are just people, aren't they?'; Geeta Patel: 'What I'm doing, I'm doing my partfor the community'; Seona Angell: 'I think maybe people think I am a bit quirky for doing it'
- Chapter 6 But Does It Work? Evaluation andEvidenceA retributive justice-restorative justice continuum; The background of rehabilitation; Theoretical, contextual and methodologicalchallenges; Summary of the 'evidence'; Internal evaluation; Chapter 7 Publish and Damn: The Media and SexOffending; Why does the media act as it does?; Naming and shaming: On the streets and in theeditors' offices; The media and government two-step; The effect on public attitudes and understan; Endnotes; References; About the Authors; Subject Index; Author Index