The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody

Name: The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody
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Circles of Support and Accountability

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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

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Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the burden of the conviction itself, which may be both stigmatising and isolating, and they are the subject of sex offender register requirements, parole and other supervisory conditions. Circles of Support and Accountability in the UK started over ten years ago and have slowly spread across the country. They work closely with the police and probation services but rely entirely on volunteers prepared to give up their time to work with people often otherwise shunned by communities. Circles offer support to the person concerned but also hold them accountable for their future behaviour. They aim to ensure there are ‘no more victims’. This book is based on original research and provides a close-up picture of how these Circles of Support and Accountability work in practice. It brings together for the first time the voices of all the participants, from the offenders and the volunteers through to the Coordinators who link the volunteers to the professionals in the form of the police and probation services. The research was commissioned by Circles UK and funded by the Wates Foundation and the University of Leeds, School of Law.

Author Biography:

David Thompson is a lecturer of Criminology at the University of Sheffield. He recently completed his PhD thesis Moving on After Getting Out: Support and Accountability for Sex Offenders which also examined the role of Circles of Support and Accountability. Terry Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at Leeds Beckett University. His most recent publications are Sex Crime: Sex Offending and Society (2016, Routledge) and The Policing of Sexual Offences and Sex Offenders (2016, Palgrave Macmillan).

Release date NZ

June 7th, 2017

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Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

9 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

262

Series

Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

ISBN-13

9781138898509

Product ID

23911544

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