Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2022 Aug;66(10-11):1071-1092. doi: 10.1177/0306624X20964094. Epub 2020 Oct 10.
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) appear to reduce the sexual recidivism of core members (i.e., individuals convicted of sexual offending). It remains unclear, however, they do so. While much previous scholarship has hypothesized that the relations between core members and CoSA volunteers promote desistance from sexual offending, there has been no theoretically-informed research that specifically interrogates these relations. This article begins to address this gap by examining the relations formed in and by CoSA through the lens of Donati's theory of relational reflexivity. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 62 CoSA participants across six CoSA programs located in the USA and Canada, it proffers a new theorization of the role of social relations in core members' desistance. Findings from the study will enable CoSA practitioners around the globe to explicate and deepen their practice around more rigorous theoretical precepts.
支持和问责制圈（CoSA）似乎可以降低核心成员（即被判犯有性犯罪的个人）的性累犯率。然而，目前尚不清楚其具体原因。虽然之前的许多研究都假设核心成员与 CoSA 志愿者之间的关系有助于停止性犯罪，但还没有从理论上深入研究这些关系的研究。本文通过用 Donati 的关系反思理论来审视 CoSA 中形成的关系，开始填补这一空白。该研究通过对来自美国和加拿大六个 CoSA 项目的 62 名 CoSA 参与者的半结构化访谈，提出了一种关于社会关系在核心成员中止犯罪过程中作用的新理论。该研究的结果将使全球的 CoSA 从业者能够在更严格的理论原则基础上阐明和深化他们的实践。
