The Third Sector’s Role in Managing Serious Offenders: Partners, Collaborators or Buffers?

Corcoran, Mary; Weston, Samantha

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63567-5_8

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“…It is perhaps the development of multi-agency approaches exemplified by Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) that most clearly signify the importance of sex offender risk management within the criminal justice system (Corcoran and Weston, 2017). Based on the idea that registered sex offenders, especially those deemed high risk, are managed better in the community post-release, MAPPA rely on each agency working in a similar way and with a similar understanding of the issues posed by sex offender management.…”

Section: Risk Actuarial Justice and Sex Offender Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is because without an understanding of concerns about resources, lack of trust and confidence in risk-based approaches may mean that policy continues to be negotiated in practice. Similarly, rather than assuming that everyone is working in the same way for the same reasons, MAPPA (Corcoran and Weston, 2017) need to have greater awareness of the potentially differing perspectives and practices of those involved so that more effective management can be achieved.…”

Section: Risk Classification Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Risk, discretion, accountability and control: Police perceptions of sex offender risk management policy in England and Wales

Hoggett

McCartan

O’Sullivan

2019

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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This article argues that understanding current approaches to sex offender risk management and its operationalization must account for front line situational decision-making practices and the culture from which they develop and operate. The research utilizes a mixed-methods approach, combining an online questionnaire survey ( N = 227) with a series of semi-structured interviews ( N = 27) with members of the police service of England and Wales. Analysis identifies ambivalence about the effectiveness of the current system of categorizing sex offenders and suggests concerns about accountability and a lack of resources results in discretion being used to engage with but also negotiate policy in practice. The article suggests that the task for sex offender risk management is to create classification tools that work with this discretion rather than against it.

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Section: Risk Actuarial Justice and Sex Offender Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Risk Classification Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%