Sexual Crime and Circles of Support and Accountability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. A History of the Development of Circles of Support and Accountability

   • Chris Wilson

   Pages 1-23

3. Circles of Support and Accountability, Assisted Desistance and Community Transition

   • Nicholas Blagden, Helen Elliott, Rebecca Lievesley

   Pages 25-41

4. Do Circles of Support and Accountability Work? A Review of the Literature

   • Rosie Kitson-Boyce

   Pages 43-69

5. The Prison-Based Model of Circles of Support and Accountability and its Application in Transitioning to the Community

   • Rosie Kitson-Boyce

   Pages 71-104

6. Evaluating Community-Based Circles of Support and Accountability

   • Michelle Dwerryhouse

   Pages 105-126

7. The Role of the Media in Shaping Responses to Sexual Offending

   • Craig A. Harper

   Pages 127-150

8. A Different Life: The Experiences of Core Members and Volunteers on the Safer Living Foundations Circles of Support and Accountability

   • Dave Potter

   Pages 151-169

9. Future Directions: Alternative Circles of Support and Accountability Models and Minority Groups

   • Kerensa Hocken, Claire Good, Helen Elliott, Carrie Webb, Helen O’Connor, Kim Cox

   Pages 171-200

10. Back Matter

    Pages 201-210

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This book offers a collection of original contributions to current research available on Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) by engaging with current literature and unpublished research in the field. The book explores the role of narrative identity in desistance from sexual crime and how CoSA maps onto this, as well as a history of CoSA across the world. The text then moves into an empirical section, reporting on some unpublished findings, including an evaluation of a new prison-based CoSA in the UK. Lastly, the experiences of service users and the influence of media perceptions are explored, offering a space for the ‘unheard voices’ as well as consideration of future directions for practitioners. The book is relevant not just to psychologists, criminologists, social workers and students, but to practitioners and the general public with an interest in learning about CoSA.

 
The editors of this volume have all been involved in the settingup of the Safer Living Foundation, a charity formed in 2014 to reduce and prevent sexual offending. 
 

• rehabilitation
• sex crime
• Councelling
• accountability for crimes
• sex offenders
• Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA)
• narrative identity
• theories of sexual offending
• prison rehabilitation
• therapeutic relationship
• recidivism
• reintegration of sex offenders
• Safer Living Foundation
• dual-process cognition
• criminology
• forensic psychiatry
• sexual behaviour

• Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, United Kingdom

  Helen Elliott

• HMPPS Whatton, Whatton, United Kingdom

  Kerensa Hocken

• Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  Rebecca Lievesley, Nicholas Blagden, Belinda Winder, Phil Banyard

Helen Elliott is a Lecturer in Counselling at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. She has a background in forensic psychology and is a trainee integrative psychotherapist.


 
Kerensa Hocken is a registered forensic psychologist at HMPPS Whatton, UK. She has oversight for the assessment and treatment of people in prison for sexual offending in the Midlands region.


 
Rebecca Lievesley is a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and member of the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
 


Nicholas Blagden is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology. He is aChartered Psychologist and has worked and researched within the criminal justice system and HM Prison Service for many years.


 
Belinda Winder is Head of the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
 
Phil Banyard is Associate in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He was recently honoured with the British Psychological Society’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology Education.

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