Lindegren Stina
Department of Social Work, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2025 Aug;69(10-11):1426-1445. doi: 10.1177/0306624X241228231. Epub 2024 Feb 5.
Life-course criminology has demonstrated the importance of social relationships and life transitions to understand desistance. Yet, individuals convicted of sexual offenses seem to differ in terms of turning points, where treatment is suggested as salient to their desistance processes. Drawing on 13 teller-focused interviews with adult male incarcerated participants in a new Swedish sex offender program, this paper examines the treatment experience and the under-explored aspect of early desistance, as well as the role of society and social relations in the treatment process, through a practice-oriented lens. The thematic analysis suggests participants started developing desisting narrative identities where micro turning points in treatment contributed to offenses being explained and re-integrated into a sense of the self as an acceptable person. The process, which also enabled active responsibility, seemed to be facilitated by a holistic, person-centered treatment environment. Nonetheless, continued desistance requires adequate attention to social support and stigma management post-release.
生命历程犯罪学已证明社会关系和生活转变对于理解犯罪停止的重要性。然而，被判定犯有性犯罪的个体在转折点方面似乎存在差异，在这些转折点上，治疗被认为对他们的犯罪停止过程至关重要。本文基于对瑞典一项新的性犯罪者项目中成年男性在押参与者进行的13次以讲述者为中心的访谈，通过一个以实践为导向的视角，审视了治疗经历以及早期犯罪停止这一未被充分探讨的方面，以及社会和社会关系在治疗过程中的作用。主题分析表明，参与者开始形成犯罪停止的叙事身份，治疗中的微观转折点有助于解释犯罪行为，并将其重新融入到作为一个可接受之人的自我认知中。这个过程也促成了积极的责任感，似乎得到了一个整体的、以人为本的治疗环境的推动。尽管如此，持续的犯罪停止需要在释放后充分关注社会支持和耻辱管理。
