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Desistance from Sexual OffendingRecovery: The Strategies of Resilience and Rehabilitation

Desistance from Sexual Offending: Recovery: The Strategies of Resilience and Rehabilitation [The men who characterized their desistance process in terms of recovery did so in two distinct ways: through “rehabilitation” and through “resilience.” The men who followed a rehabilitative path were profoundly and positively impacted by their experience of therapy and treatment and were especially keen to proselytize about that successful transformation. As per the dictionary definition, they had restored themselves to some degree of normal life through appropriate training. They appeared to have achieved some level of cognitive transformation (albeit with the stigmatizing label of “at-risk sexual predator” still firmly attached). A strong hallmark of this strategy was that many of the “rehabilitated” men also mentored other men with sexual offense convictions and were motivated to help others and give back. The “resilient” men demonstrated a similarly commanding confidence to live offense-free lives, but the change was more subtle and internal. They were equally certain of their total recovery, but were insistent that their transformation had occurred largely independently of group treatment and psychotherapy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Desistance from Sexual OffendingRecovery: The Strategies of Resilience and Rehabilitation

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-63199-8
Pages
219 –250
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-63200-1_8
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[The men who characterized their desistance process in terms of recovery did so in two distinct ways: through “rehabilitation” and through “resilience.” The men who followed a rehabilitative path were profoundly and positively impacted by their experience of therapy and treatment and were especially keen to proselytize about that successful transformation. As per the dictionary definition, they had restored themselves to some degree of normal life through appropriate training. They appeared to have achieved some level of cognitive transformation (albeit with the stigmatizing label of “at-risk sexual predator” still firmly attached). A strong hallmark of this strategy was that many of the “rehabilitated” men also mentored other men with sexual offense convictions and were motivated to help others and give back. The “resilient” men demonstrated a similarly commanding confidence to live offense-free lives, but the change was more subtle and internal. They were equally certain of their total recovery, but were insistent that their transformation had occurred largely independently of group treatment and psychotherapy.]

Published: Nov 28, 2017

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