Strength based approaches and protective factors from a criminological perspective

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Time Well Spent: Misery, Meaning, and the Opportunity of Incarceration

“…How well do protective factor assessments explain recidivism and the above concepts as compared with, and in combination with, risk assessments? (Kewley 2017;Polaschek 2016;Serin, Chadwick and Lloyd 2016). The next 20 years of corrections research could continue to ask more than just what reduces recidivism and could acknowledge that people make decisions based on someone's trustworthiness, credibility, and responsibility, rather than simply their assumed objective risk to recidivate (Denver and Ewald 2018).…”

Policing people with sexual convictions using strengths-based approaches

“…In an effort to redress this balance, and perhaps offer a more ethical approach to risk management planning; academics and practitioners have begun to develop and implement risk and strengths based tools (for a criminological review of strengths based approaches see Kewley, 2017). Strengths based approaches, in a criminal justice context at least, enable practitioners to support clients to build personal capacity and expose them to opportunities that help develop personal strengths and goals.…”

“Any Alternative Is Great If I’m Incarcerated”: A Case Study of Court-Ordered Community Service in Los Angeles County

“…Public defenders and traffic attorneys believe consequences for noncompletion trap their clients in cycles of poverty and incarceration. Overall, the attorney’s perception of community service as an alternative to incarceration reinforces the idea that it does little more than change the face and name of the carceral state (Kewley, 2017). They believe that instead of getting people out of the system, court-ordered community service keeps their clients entrenched in it, reinforcing the idea of the shadow carceral state (Beckett & Murakawa, 2012).…”