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Promoting desistance
A workshop exploring desistance and how best to support it’s development
Dave Wood
Overview and objectives
● Consider what desistance is.● Explore the nature and findings of the
research.● Think through what desistance
understandings mean for practice.
A little about me
• Probation – 13 years• PhD research• Development of
Metanoeo: Coaching Academic Training Future direction
Session ethos
We all bring different concerns perspectives and experiences:● Listen● Share● Engage● ReflectBe prepared to challenge your own preconceptions and understandings.
Introduction
● Allan Weaver – The Road from Crime
● Social nature – back to probation roots
● Paradigm as opposed to a practice theory
What is desistance?
● Journey● Difficult● Lapse and relapse● When has someone
desisted?
Onset
Persistence
Desistance
Exercise 1
Have you ever asked someone why they stopped committing crime?
If so, what did they say?
A look at the research
Qualitative - internal and external factors:• Maturity• Family / relationships• Sobriety• Employment• Hope and motivation• Giving• Place in society• Identity• Being believed in
Relating this to theory
• Negative self-scripting• Becker and master /
auxiliary status• Redemption scripts• Strain theory and
onset• S
tories are similar but they’re not the same
Exercise 2
Listening to the stories in the video; what are the issues which are important for people in terms of keeping them in crime?How does this match with your experience?
Summarising the research
Enablement
Identity
ReconciliationHope
Developing assisteddesistance
Fergus McNeill:• Enablement instead of control• Meaningful relationships• Optimistic and avoid labelling• Strengths not just risks• Recognising achievement• Practical assistance• Working with family• Role of communities
Emergence of Good Lives
Emergence in sex offender treatment
• Primary goods• Human well-being• Cultural context ... but
some basic needs• Individualised weighted
planPositive psychology
A case study
Rudi Richardson – Founder of Streetlytes
Exercise 3
What does this mean for your practice?• Relationship quality• Facilitating change• Kind of journey• Nature of journey• Identity and diversity
Conclusion
Liberation not management
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