an article by Jane Fenton (University of Dundee) published in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Volume 52 Issue 1 (February 2013)
Abstract
This article explores the difficulty that criminal justice social work (CJSW) might have in implementing a desistance approach to work with offenders.
Supporting desistance requires responsive, autonomous social workers and this article questions whether criminal justice agencies, characterised by risk aversion and managerialism, would be able to tolerate the anxiety this would inevitably, and properly, generate.
Suggestions are made regarding the place of desistance work within a positive human rights framework, which might provide a force against the corrosive progression of popular punitivism – a major factor in the persistence of risk averse, managerial practice.
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