Moving beyond the risk paradigm: Using the Good Lives Model with offenders in denial of sexual offending. (April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dealey, Jill
• Is Part Of: European journal of probation. Volume 10:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 28
• Page End: 43
• Publication Date: 2018-04
• Subjects: Denial -- Good Lives Model -- probation service -- sex offending; Probation -- Europe -- Periodicals; 364.6309405
• DOI: 10.1177/2066220318755530
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2066-2203

Abstract

Denial of sexual offending is complex, and can hinder the development of a positive working relationship between an offender and the probation officer managing their case; it can also impact on the offender's wider life experience as they are stranded between their past offending and creating a new offence-free life. The theory of the Good Lives Model can be used as a tool to reduce both the tensions in this professional relationship and enable the offender to move forward, both in addressing their behaviour and establishing a non-offending life.