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Circles of Support and Accountability
A project for safer reintegration of sex offenders into the community
A Restorative Project
Restorative Justice• Repair• Stakeholder Participation• Transformation
Restorative Process• Truth Telling• Validation• Reparation• Conferencing
The Three Key PrinciplesTheoretical Framework
Support Monitor Maintain
Reduce Isolation and Emotional Loneliness
Public Protection Hold Offender Accountable
Model Appropriate Relationships
Support Statutory Authorities-Police, Probation, MAPPA
Relationship of Trust
Demonstrate Humanity and Care Safer Communities
Maintain Treatment Objectives
Reduce Re-offending
Saunders & Wilson 2002
Good Lives Model:Primary Human Goods
• Life (including healthy living and physical functioning)• Knowledge• Excellence in play and work (Mastery)• Agency (autonomy)• Inner peace (freedom from turmoil and stress)• Friendship (including intimate, romantic and family
relationships)• Community• Spirituality (finding purpose in life)• Happiness• Creativity
Circles of Support & Accountability
Core member
Volunteers
Professionals
The Circle comprises volunteers from the community who are supported by professional staff
What makes an effective Circle?
Selection of Core Member
Appropriate balance and selection of volunteers
Involvement of key professionals
Trust and Honesty within Confidentiality framework
Maintaining firm and clear boundaries
Supervision and Management of Volunteers and Circles
Personal Reviews
Circles Reviews
Peer Supervision
Regular Communication and Information Sharing
Bring Volunteers together
Volunteer Roles and Responsibility
Achieving a balance between support and accountabilityAbility to be able to work with statutory agenciesAbility to work individually and as part of a teamRecognition/management of manipulation and collusionAbility to maintain confidentialityRespectful non judgemental approachAbility to access support when necessaryProvide a structured framework to provide emotional/practical supportAbility to maintain appropriate personal boundariesAbility to assist development of community, social and support networks
Circles of Support & AccountabilityCircles of Support & Accountability
Executive Summary
COSA PARTICIPANTS
85% reductionin sexual recidivism
Wilson, Cortoni, McWhinnieNovember 09
Sage publications
COSA PARTICIPANTS
85% reductionin sexual recidivism
Wilson, Cortoni, McWhinnieNovember 09
Sage publications
What is a Successful Outcome?
• No sexual reconviction• Reduced e.g. lesser offending?• Offending prevented by evasive action
e.g.– Recall to prison on licence– Imposition/breach of Sex Offender Prevention
Order (SOPO)
BEHAVIOURAL OUTCOMES FOR CORE MEMBERS
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Reconvicted
Breach of SOPO
Recall
RecidivistBehaviour
No Problems
Total of 16 Core Members in a 3.5 year period
The comparison between the reconviction outcomes for the two groups (both N=71) are
displayed on the following table.
CSE Core Members Comparison group
Contact sexual or violent reconviction 0 10
Non-contact sexual reconviction3 2
Failure to comply with Sex Offender Register
3 6
Breach of SOPO 2 0
A Breakdown of Volunteers Working in Thames Valley COSA in 2005
A Breakdown of Volunteers Working in Circles South East in 2013
Circles 4EUIMPLEMENTED IMPLEMENTING ADAPTATION
United Kingdom Latvia IrelandNetherlands Bulgaria FranceBelgium Catalonia Hungary
With financial support from the Daphne Programme of the European Union
Circles Research & Evaluation
• Bates, A., Wilson, C. & Saunders, R (2007) Doing Something About It: A Follow-up Study of Sex Offenders participating in Thames Valley Circles of Support and Accountability. British Journal of Community Justice, Vol 5 - No. 1, 19-42
• Bates, A, Williams, D, Wilson, C & Wilson, R (2013) Circles South-East: the First Ten Years, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2014, Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 861-885
• Marshall W (2005) Therapist styles in Sexual offender Treatment. Influences on Indices of Change Journal of research and Change 17 109 – 17
• Wilson C Bates A Vollm B (2011) Circles of Support and Accountability: An Innovative Approach to Manage High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community The Open Criminology Journal.
• Wilson, R. Cortoni, F. McWhinnie, A. 2009 Circles of Support and Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings. Sage (on behalf of ATSA)
• Wilson R, McWhinnie A, Wilson C. 2008 Circles of Support and Accountability: An international partnership in reducing sexual offender recidivism (Prison Service Journal No178)
• Ward T and Stewart CA (2003) ‘Good Lives and the Rehabilitation of Sexual offenders’ Sage
Thank You