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Role Models or Gateways to Resources?: Contemporary Confusions in Mentoring Practice
Heather Tolland,Margaret Malloch +1 more
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Mentoring has become increasingly popular in recent years in the criminal justice system, presented across the UK and internationally as a service that can address the specific needs of women as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Mentoring has become increasingly popular in recent years in the criminal justice system, presented across the UK and internationally as a service that can address the specific ‘needs’ of women. This article draws on original qualitative research with mentors and mentees to explore their experiences and to establish the aims and processes of mentoring. The rhetoric of mentoring offered by mentors and staff suggested that mentoring was based on an individualistic approach that contained responsibilising strategies. In practice, however, mentors were helping women to resolve issues related to the welfare system and other services outwith the criminal justice system. If positive outcomes of mentoring are viewed by policymakers to be the result of an individualistic approach aimed at fostering ‘prosocial’ interventions, rather than the result of attempts to mitigate wider structural failures then this takes responsibility away from the State and distracts from the deeper effects of criminalising processes.read more
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‘A wee kick up the arse’: Mentoring, motivation and desistance from crime
TL;DR: Mentoring is an increasingly popular approach for supporting people who have a history of offending as mentioned in this paper, and previous research provides some evidence that it may contribute to reductions in offending behaviour.
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Qualitative analysis for social scientists
TL;DR: This book presents a meta-coding pedagogical architecture grounded in awareness contexts that helps practitioners and students understand one another better and take responsibility for one another's learning.
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The Corston Report: A review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system
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Women Coming Home: Long‐Term Patterns of Recidivism
TL;DR: This article found that women who are drug dependent, have less education, or have more extensive criminal histories are more likely to fail on parole and to recidivate more quickly during the eight year follow-up period.
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