Resettlement of sex offenders after custody: circles of support and accountability

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- What constitutes a sexual offence? -- What is the scale of sexual offending? -- What is the law on sexual offending? -- Responding to sexual offences and sex offenders -- The outline of this book -- 2 The management and supervision of sex offenders in the community -- Introduction -- Managing and 'containing' sex offenders in the community -- The statutory sector -- 'Working together' in the public sector -- Opening up the market -- The private sector -- The voluntary sector -- Transforming Rehabilitation: the 2013-2016 policy agenda -- Summary -- 3 Circles of Support and Accountability -- Introduction -- A brief history of Circles -- 'Circles UK' -- Circles in practice -- Existing evaluation studies -- Press and broadcast coverage -- Circles in other countries -- Summary -- 4 From 'containment' to the 'good life' -- Introduction -- Deficits-basedapproaches -- Strengths-basedapproaches -- CoSA, RNR and the GLM -- Summary -- 5 The Core Members -- Introduction -- Description of sample -- Life as a convicted sex offender -- Core Members and Circles: the experience -- Core Members' views of the volunteers -- Core Members' views of the Coordinators -- Core Members' views on police and probation -- Core Members' perspectives on support and accountability -- Core Members' perceptions of success -- Was it worthwhile? -- Summary -- 6 The volunteers -- Context of volunteers in the criminal justice system -- Sample description -- Getting started -- Within a Circle -- Relationships between volunteers in the Circle -- Relationships with Core Members -- Support and accountability -- Recognising success and risk -- Summary -- 7 The professionals -- Introduction -- The Coordinators -- The police officers -- The probation officers