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This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending. The release of a notorious sex offender from prison strikes fear into members of the public. Media coverage often provokes further panic, casting such offenders as irredeemable monsters and ticking time bombs, destined to continue preying on innocent children and women. In the West, governments have responded by enacting heavily punitive and exclusionary policies, such as public sex offender registers, indefinite detention, and lifetime correctional supervision.

A radically different approach Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) emerged alongside these measures. CoSA are groups of trained volunteers who collectively resist the exclusionary impulse, instead actively supporting those with sexual offence convictions to reintegrate into communities. Despite their seemingly counterintuitive nature, the research is clear that CoSA reduce sexual reoffending far better than more popular draconian sex offender management policies. However, little is understood about how CoSA work.

This book begins to address this gap by proposing a new way of understanding how CoSA reduce sexual reoffending. Drawing on 65 in-depth interviews with CoSA participants, it offers a new theoretically-informed empirical explanation of CoSAs capacity to promote desistance from sexual offending, and to turn those convicted of sexual offenders into law-abiding and productive members of the community. Ultimately it is a call to action, demonstrating that we, the community, must play a more central role in integrating people with sexual offence convictions if we desire safer communities for our children and our selves. This work illuminates new directions for research, policy, and practice, and is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology and criminal justice, restorative justice, sexual violence, and reentry

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Desistance from Sexual Offending
This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) can reduce sexual reoffending. The release of a notorious sex offender from prison strikes fear into members of the public. Media coverage often provokes further panic, casting such offenders as irredeemable monsters and ticking time bombs, destined to continue preying on innocent children and women. In the West, governments have responded by enacting heavily punitive and exclusionary policies, such as public sex offender registers, indefinite detention and lifetime correctional supervision.
A radically different approach Circles of Support and Accountability emerged alongside these measures. CoSA are groups of trained volunteers who collectively resist the exclusionary impulse, instead actively supporting those with sexual offence convictions to reintegrate into communities. Despite their seemingly counterintuitive nature, the research is clear that CoSA reduce sexual reoffending far better than more popular draconian sex offender management policies. However, little is understood about how CoSA work.
This book begins to address this gap by proposing a new way of understanding how CoSA reduce sexual reoffending. Drawing on 65 in-depth interviews with CoSA participants, it offers a new theoretically informed empirical explanation of CoSAs capacity to promote desistance from sexual offending and to turn those convicted of sexual offenders into law-abiding and productive members of the community. Ultimately, it is a call to action, demonstrating that we, the community, must play a more central role in integrating people with sexual offence convictions if we desire safer communities for our children and our selves. This work illuminates new directions for research, policy and practice, and is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology and criminal justice, restorative justice, sexual violence and reentry
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.
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Alexei Ansin
Criminalization of Activism
Historical, Present, and Future Perspectives
Edited by Valeria Vegh Weis
Elderly Sexual Abuse
Theory, Research, and Practice
Eric Beauregard and Julien Chopin
Desistance from Sexual Offending
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For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Crime-and-Society/book-series/RSCS
First published 2022
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2022 Kelly Richards
The right of Kelly Richards to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Richards, Kelly (Lecturer in criminology), author.
Title: Desistance from sexual offending : the role of circles of support and accountability / Kelly Richards.
Description: 1 Edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge studies in crime and society | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021032776 (print) | LCCN 2021032777 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367646240 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367646257 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003125532 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sex offendersRehabilitation. | Self-help groups. | Community mental health services. | Community psychology.
Classification: LCC HV6556 .R534 2022 (print) | LCC HV6556 (ebook) | DDC 365/.661dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021032776
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021032777
ISBN: 978-0-367-64624-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-64625-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-12553-2 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003125532
Typeset in Bembo
by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to Owen Richards, the best big brother a girl could ask for.
Contents
  1. 1Situating Circles of Support and Accountability
  2. How Do CoSA Work?
  3. Who Volunteers in CoSA?
  4. Do CoSA Work?
  5. Notes
  6. References
  7. 2Theorising Circles of Support and Accountability
  8. Existing Theorisations of CoSA
  9. Understanding Desistance
  10. CoSA as Desistance-Promotion
  11. Conclusion
  12. References
  13. 3Researching Circles of Support and Accountability
  14. Methodological Approach
  15. Participant Sampling and Recruitment
  16. Data Collection
  17. The Participants
  18. Making Sense of the Data
  19. Ethical Considerations
  20. What Was It Like?
  21. Conclusion
  22. References
  23. 4A Shot at Redemption: Circles of Support and Accountability, Desistance and Redemption Scripts
  24. Redemption and Condemnation Scripts
  25. Desistance and People Who Have Sexually Offended
  26. Alans Story
  27. Establishing a True, Good Self
  28. Identifying a Bad It
  29. Incorporating a Sense of Tragic Optimism
  30. Developing a Sense of Optimistic Control and Self-Efficacy
  31. Conclusion
  32. References
  33. 5Circles of Support and Accountability, the 110-Percenters and Witnesses to Identity Transformation
  34. Todds Story
  35. The 110-Percenters
  36. If Desistance Occurs in the Woods and There Is No One There to See It
  37. Adams Story
  38. Conclusion
  39. Note
  40. References
  41. 6Giving Back from a Hopeless Place: Circles of Support and Accountability and Generativity
  42. Rorys Story
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