Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending

Ian Mahoney is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and co-chair of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research group at Nottingham Trent University. His research adopts a cultural criminological lens and is currently focused on understanding and addressing the harms and impacts of crime and contact with the justice system across diverse groups including minoritised communities, women with convictions and individuals convicted of sexual offences. Rahmanara Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. She is a chartered psychologist and a member of the Centre for Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement. Her work focuses on minority communities and manifestations of various forms of abuse, particularly within faith contexts. She also explores the experiences of minorities within the criminal justice system. Rahmanara is particularly keen to build bridges across communities that are often portrayed as the other and to be feared, through the sharing of knowledge, understanding, relationship building and capacity development.

Chapter 1: Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending

Ian Mahoney and Rahmanara Chowdhury

Part 1 – Considerations around Holistic Baseline Interventions

Chapter 2: Re-inventing the Resettlement of Prison Leavers in the UK. Housing First, Rehabilitation Last.
Colin Boyd and Paul Andell

Chapter 3: Reimagining Prison-Community Transitions through ‘Resettlement Passports’: Critical Reflections on Citizenship, Stigma and Society
Paul Hamilton and Joseph Hale

Chapter 4: The Digital Desistance Manifesto
Victoria Knight, Sarah Elison-Davies, Helen Farley and James Tangen

Chapter 5: The Multiple Faces of Electronic Monitoring: Considering its potential as a holistic response for (re)integration, (re)settlement, and reducing reoffending
Rafaela Granja and Sílvia Gomes

Part 2 – Consideration of Specific Population Groups

Chapter 6: Holistic responses as an approach to addressing minority needs in reducing reoffending
Rahmanara Chowdhury and Ian Mahoney

Chapter 7: Muslim Males and Forensic Mental Health: Current Challenges and the Value of Cultural Competence:
Damian J. Terrill and Rahmanara Chowdhury

Chapter 8: Lessons from public criminology for the reintegration of men with sexual convictions post-imprisonment
Kirsty Teague

Part 3 – Re-imagining support within Holistic Frameworks

Chapter 9: ‘This Has Honestly Changed My Life’ – Evaluating the Efficacy of Community Sentence Treatment Requirements
Jennifer Hough and Rachel Evans

Chapter 10: The significance of ‘time’ when finishing time – A case-study on holistic relationship-based approaches to supporting re/integration for criminal justice affected people.
Julie Parsons

Conclusions

Chapter 11: Future Directions in Frameworks of Holistic Approaches in (Re)integration and (Re)settlement

Rahmanara Chowdhury and Ian Mahoney