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040 _aAFVC
100 _aMulline, Eva
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245 _aFrom desistance narratives to narratives of rehabilitation :
_brisk-talk in groupwork for addressing sexual offending
_cEva Mulline and Steve Kirkwood
260 _bSage,
_c2022
500 _aCriminology & Criminal Justice, 2022, First published online, 14 July 2022
520 _aRisk has become a dominant focus in criminal justice practice. While this can improve the effectiveness of practices for reducing offending, it can also stigmatise and create barriers for those attempting to desist from crime. To explore this apparent dilemma, we applied conversation analysis and discursive psychology to examine risk-talk in 12 video-recorded sessions of a groupwork programme for addressing sexual offending. We found both practitioners and clients oriented to notions of risk in their talk. They drew on risk-talk as a resource to construct narratives that support desistance, emphasising awareness of risks, having control, and gaining hope and agency over the future. However, risk-talk was resisted when it challenged the client’s self-presentation. Building on previous empirical and theoretical work on desistance and criminal justice practice, we found it is possible for people to incorporate aspects of risk into their personal narratives in order to weave a narrative of rehabilitation. Keywords (Authors' abstract). Record #7727
650 _aBEHAVIOUR CHANGE
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650 _aINTERVENTION
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650 _aNARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
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650 _aPERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES
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650 _aREHABILITATION
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650 4 _aRISK ASSESSMENT
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650 4 _aRISK MANAGEMENT
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650 4 _9528
_aSEX OFFENDERS
651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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651 _aSCOTLAND
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700 _aKirkwood, Steve
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773 0 _tCriminology & Criminal Justice, 2022, First published online, 14 July 2022
830 _aCriminology & Criminal Justice
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221108830
_zDOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221108830 (Open access)
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