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Resettlement behind bars: challenging the current views on desistance from crime

BSC Conference - 4 th July 2011 - ‘Criminology at the Borders ’. Resettlement behind bars: challenging the current views on desistance from crime. Fabio Tartarini. Resettlement and the 7 Pathways. What is it? Reducing reoffending: national plan (Home office, 2004)

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Resettlement behind bars: challenging the current views on desistance from crime

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  1. BSC Conference - 4th July 2011 - ‘Criminology at the Borders’ Resettlement behind bars: challenging the current views on desistance from crime Fabio Tartarini

  2. Resettlementand the 7 Pathways • What is it? • Reducing reoffending: national plan (Home office, 2004) • ‘underpins the work of the whole prison supported by partnerships in the community and informed by assessments of risk that prisoners pose, and their needs so as to stop offending on release’ • 7 Pathways: 1. Accommodation; 2. Education, employment and training; 3. Health; 4. Drugs and alcohol; 5. Finance, debt and benefit; 6. Children and families; 7. Attitudes, thinking and behaviour

  3. The importance of resettlement • Parallels with findings from research on desistance • Human and social capital • Another key of reading: concept of coping. Cognitive and behavioural efforts to manage external/internal demands appraised as taxing or exceeding the persons’resources(Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) • Coping-criminality hypothesis(Zamble and Porporino, 1988) ‘Coping difficulties are a central cause of the maintenance and repetition of criminal acts, if not their origin’(Zamble and Porporino, 1990: 56) How does resettlement work in reality?

  4. A taste of prison.. • 6 months as ‘resettlement administrator’ • Dealing with 7 Pathways (together with OMU) • Resettlement assessment interviews as opportunity to access support and services • Category B prison • ‘Those who do not require maximum security, but for whom escape needs to be made very difficult’ • But also.. • Male private prison • 860 Main prison • 200 Therapeutic Community • Training facilities

  5. Tales from the prison.. • Desistance in the making • Limitations of the everyday life • Staff • Prison ‘culture’ vs unit ‘culture’ • Prisoners • Relationship with the sentence plan • Reliance on staff and professionals • System replicating social differences • Experience of the prison system

  6. Back into the researcher’s clothes... • Questioning desistance • When the process of desistance starts? • Adopt different definition of desistance • How the custodial sentences are helping? • Emerging research themes • ‘Cultural’ change..twice • Learning process • Legitimacy & Legitimacy • Engagement

  7. Directions for (my) research ‘if members of this target population do not engage with or commit themselves to an intervention, the ‘treatment’ is unlikely to succeed’(Maruna and LeBel 2010) • Key points to explore: • Engagement with custodial sentences • Motivations to engage • Legitimacy of the sentence • Role of expertise of resettlement on engagement • Widening the perspective • Research staff: attitudes, engagement.. • Sentence plan • How is it delivered? Motivations? • New operationalisation of ‘desistance’ (In&Out) • Scarce research within prison and in relation to engagement, compliance and legitimacy.

  8. Directions for the future • Keep investigating the reality of desistance process • Work on and consider the full picture • Necessity of joint enterprise • Research on different aspects and moments of the process • Gather different researchers from different areas and disciplines • Policy/intervention oriented • Strength based interventions (Burnett & Maruna, 2006; Ward & Maruna 2007) Desistance paradigm (McNeill, 2006) • Aim at prevention and community involvement • Not only tertiary prevention: extend to primary, secondary & quaternary prevention

  9. BSC Conference - 4th July 2011 - ‘Criminology at the Borders’ Email: Fabio@Tartarini.net Blog: fabio.tartarini.net/blog Twitter: T_Fabius Resettlement behind bars: challenging the current views on desistance from crime

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