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Supporting Desistance from Crime: Reconfiguring Penal Practice  Fergus McNeill Professor of Criminology & Social Work University of Glasgow [email_address]
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Research and Penal Practice Forms of Research Key Questions Disciplines Critical and Comparative Research (on penal practice) What are ‘penal practices’? How and why are they constituted as they are? What purposes should they serve? Sociology, Penology,  Socio-legal studies, Philosophy, Politics, Social Policy, Social Work Explanatory Research (for penal practice) How can we best account for crime and criminalisation? How can we best understand  desistance  from crime? What is successful social reintegration? Sociology, Psychology, Criminology, Philosophy Evaluative Research (of penal practice) What works for whom in which circumstances? Who works? Why and how?  A wide range of ‘medical’ and social sciences methods
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When does desistance  research matter? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Models of the process Giordano et al (2002) Vaughan (2007) 1. General cognitive openness to change 1. Discernment: reviews possible choices 2. Exposure  and reaction to ‘hooks for change’ 2. Deliberation: about possible courses of action; a comparison of selves: who one is, who one wishes to be 3. Availability of an appealing conventional self 4. Transformation in attitudes to deviant behaviour 3. Dedication: commitment to the new (non-criminal) identity Successful social integration and long term substantive compliance: Better lives as better citizens
From  Bottoms and Shapland (2011: 70)
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Motivation [Counsellor] Capacities/ Human capital [Educator] Opportunities/ Social capital [Advocate/Allies] RNR Programmes? Avoidance Goals Good Lives Model? Approach Goals Work with Families Volunteers/Mentors Faith groups Employers COSA? Generativity Integration
Copernican Corrections? The person changing The offender The supporting interventions The treatment programme The reintegrating community The exclusionary community
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AI for desistance? Phases  Strategy Practice 1. Discovery Discern the best of what is 2. Dream Imagine possible futures 3. Design The ideal organisation/the ideal practice approach or model 4. Destiny Making change happen
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Iriss screencast-mc neill-01-09-2011

  • 1. Supporting Desistance from Crime: Reconfiguring Penal Practice Fergus McNeill Professor of Criminology & Social Work University of Glasgow [email_address]
  • 2.
  • 3. Research and Penal Practice Forms of Research Key Questions Disciplines Critical and Comparative Research (on penal practice) What are ‘penal practices’? How and why are they constituted as they are? What purposes should they serve? Sociology, Penology, Socio-legal studies, Philosophy, Politics, Social Policy, Social Work Explanatory Research (for penal practice) How can we best account for crime and criminalisation? How can we best understand desistance from crime? What is successful social reintegration? Sociology, Psychology, Criminology, Philosophy Evaluative Research (of penal practice) What works for whom in which circumstances? Who works? Why and how? A wide range of ‘medical’ and social sciences methods
  • 4.
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  • 10.  
  • 11. Models of the process Giordano et al (2002) Vaughan (2007) 1. General cognitive openness to change 1. Discernment: reviews possible choices 2. Exposure and reaction to ‘hooks for change’ 2. Deliberation: about possible courses of action; a comparison of selves: who one is, who one wishes to be 3. Availability of an appealing conventional self 4. Transformation in attitudes to deviant behaviour 3. Dedication: commitment to the new (non-criminal) identity Successful social integration and long term substantive compliance: Better lives as better citizens
  • 12. From Bottoms and Shapland (2011: 70)
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  • 17.
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  • 24. Motivation [Counsellor] Capacities/ Human capital [Educator] Opportunities/ Social capital [Advocate/Allies] RNR Programmes? Avoidance Goals Good Lives Model? Approach Goals Work with Families Volunteers/Mentors Faith groups Employers COSA? Generativity Integration
  • 25. Copernican Corrections? The person changing The offender The supporting interventions The treatment programme The reintegrating community The exclusionary community
  • 26.
  • 27.
  • 28.
  • 29. AI for desistance? Phases Strategy Practice 1. Discovery Discern the best of what is 2. Dream Imagine possible futures 3. Design The ideal organisation/the ideal practice approach or model 4. Destiny Making change happen
  • 30.
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  1. Much of the more recent literature highlights commonalities in processes of desistance btwn men and women. BUT: Giordano et al. (2002) suggest that despite the commonalities between males and females - women more likely than men to cite ‘religious conversions’ and parenthood as catalysts for change. This is broadly compatible with Rumgay’s (2004) theorisation of women’s processes of desistance - rooted in the recognition of an opportunity to claim an alternative, desired and socially approved personal identity. Certain common identities, she suggests, such as that of a mother, may provide a ‘script’ by which to enact a conventional pro-social role, serving to enhance self efficacy and assist in perpetuating the newly acquired identity . Consensus that women’s desistance is related to investment in relational commitments, manifesting in generative concerns and the assumption of responsibility (Barry 2007). These include marriage, familial and parental responsibilities, awareness of peer, familial and societal disapproval, commitment to religious beliefs, and concerns re impact of continuation of offending (see Jamieson et al. 1999; McIvor 2007; Barry 2007). Practice requires to support women’s efforts to change through the provision of services which take account of the realities of their lives, of what is important to them and of the social demands placed upon them. practices that provide practical and emotional support to them in meeting those responsibilities and commitments that are significant to them. This might include addressing, for example, housing and financial problems, assistance with child care, access to meaningful education and employment opportunities, and support to strengthen social and familial support networks. Creative practice would be focused on empowering women to take control of their lives, to access opportunities not only to increase their capacity to accumulate (social) capital, but to expend capital. But equally creative practice must avoid inappropriately universalized or stereotypical assumptions about women’s relational commitments, generative concerns or socially valorized desires to assume caring responsibilities. Other pathways to desistance need to be opened up and supported for women who chose other ways to realize their femininities.