Kelly Richards

Desistance from Sexual Offending

The Role of Circles of Support and Accountability

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367646240
• ISBN-10: 0367646242
• Artikelnr.: 62573377

Autorenporträt

Kelly Richards holds a PhD in criminology from Western Sydney University. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, where her research focuses primarily on those who perpetrate sexual violence. In 2010, she was awarded the ACT Government Office for Women Audrey Fagan Churchill Fellowship to investigate Circles of Support and Accountability in Canada, America and the United Kingdom. She was recently awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and will use this to further her research at California State University and the University of Vermont. She lives in Brisbane with her husband and Staghound X, and enjoys hiking, music and pub trivia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Situating Circles of Support and Accountability Chapter 2.
Theorising Circles of Support and Accountability Chapter 3. Researching
Circles of Support and Accountability Chapter 4. A Shot at Redemption:
Circles of Support and Accountability, Desistance and Redemption Scripts
Chapter 5. Circles of Support and Accountability, the 110-Percenters and
Witnesses to Identity TransformationChapter 6. Giving Back from a Hopeless
Place: Circles of Support and Accountability and Generativity Chapter 7.
Circles of Support and Accountability and Core Members as Wounded Healers
Chapter 8. Implications for Practice: Delivering Circles of Support and
Accountability as Desistance-Promotion Conclusion