Encoding risk: Probation work and sex offenders’ narrative identities
Encoding risk: Probation work and sex offenders’ narrative identities
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编码风险：缓刑工作和性犯罪者的叙述身份
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2014
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Léon Digard
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作者：
Léon Digard
在英格兰和威尔士，管理被释放的性犯罪者的立法往往侧重于对行为的监测和外部控制的结构。这些政策似乎将对受试者内部世界的关注限制在基于手动的认知行为治疗课程中。然而，在英国对被判性犯罪的假释犯及其监督（缓刑）官员进行的访谈揭示了官员试图引导假释犯的叙事身份的各种方式-塑造他们的主体性。根据福柯对忏悔作为一种“自我技术”的描述，我们可以看到缓刑监督官是如何试图改变他们的当事人的自我概念的。这种分析突出了监督工作的内部性质，为性犯罪者可能参与或抵制其社区管理的原因提供了见解。此外，必须考虑到所鼓励的叙述的潜在影响;虽然关于公共保护和风险管理的解释性论述占了上风，但有充分的理由表明，所开展的工作可能阻碍了对这些目标的追求。
Legislation governing the management of released sex offenders in England and Wales has frequently focused on the monitoring of behaviour and the structuring of external controls. Such policies would appear to limit concern for the subject’s internal world to manual-based cognitive behavioural therapy courses. Interviews conducted in England both with paroled individuals convicted for sexual offences and their supervising (probation) officers, however, reveal the various ways in which officers attempt to direct the narrative identities of their parolees – shaping their subjectivities. Drawing upon Foucauldian descriptions of confession as a ‘technology of the self’, it is possible to see how probation officers sought to transform their clients’ self-conceptualisations. This analysis highlights the internal nature of supervisory work, offering insights into the reasons why sex offenders may engage with or resist their community management. Furthermore, the potential impact of the narratives encouraged must be considered; while explanatory discourses of public protection and risk management prevailed, there are good reasons to suggest that the work conducted may have hindered the pursuit of these aims.