Kewley, S
ORCID: 0000-0001-6841-5577
(2025)
Towards Safer Communities: A Desistance-Centred Approach to Managing People with Sexual Convictions.
NOTA Newsletter (99).
pp. 11-12.
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Abstract
In recent years, the management of people with sexual convictions in the community has faced renewed scrutiny. The 2023 Independent Review into the Police-Led Management of Registered Sex Offenders (Creedon, 2023) challenged the status quo, calling for a move beyond containment strategies and towards approaches that support long-term behavioural change — in short, a shift towards desistance. This article introduces a new Desistance Practice Framework, developed in partnership with police professionals and people with sexual convictions. It provides a clear roadmap for how police can support desistance and strengthen public protection through relationship-based, person-centred policing.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Copyright NOTA 2025 Shared with permission |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Divisions: | Psychology (from Sep 2019) |
| Publisher: | NOTA |
| Date of acceptance: | 30 May 2025 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 October 2025 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2025 15:53 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2025 16:00 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27194 |
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