Offending Identities: Sex Offenders' Perspectives on Their by Kirsty Hudson

By Kirsty Hudson

This ebook goals to discover intercourse offenders' views of how they're handled and controlled. while greatly has been written approximately intercourse offenders and their remedy in the felony justice process, few reports have approached the problems via an figuring out of offenders' personal perspectives and views on their offending behaviour and others' responses to it. This ebook goals to redress this imbalance. The e-book is predicated on in-depth interviews with 32 convicted male intercourse offenders attending 3 diversified intercourse criminal therapy programmes (the felony dependent intercourse criminal therapy Programme, Behaviour review Programme and the community-led intercourse criminal Groupwork Programme). via gaining an realizing of offenders perceptions of tasks designed to either deal with and keep watch over their probability of destiny offending, Offending Identities even as is helping us to guage the effectiveness of such schemes.

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