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Returning to Work: A Working Perspective

Raymond Lunn — Sun, 27 May 2018 13:55:50 +0000

The Justice Secretary David Gauke announced on Thursday (25th May 2018), the Government would introduce a new strategy to deal with reoffending and the rehabilitation of offenders. The strategy unveiled, is to get people that have offended back into employment through vocational training, inside and out of prison. Working with companies offering training [...]

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Desisting Desistance

Raymond Lunn — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 21:53:36 +0000

You wake up one day and realise you’ve acted out being the victim, poured your pain and being out to the ‘welfareist’ and become abused by the class that claims to be the saviours of social justice …

You think, ‘fuck it’, I’ll show them Wolves what it means to be a ‘critical thinker’, a [...]

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Understanding Desistance

Raymond Lunn — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:34:21 +0000

“Too much information cripples understanding”

It’s just simply ‘change’, the Hegelian agents of discourse, the ‘agents’ (academics, practitioners, scrupulous charities) that take charge of your voice, confuse your narrative with a new academic verse of commodity.

“An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with [...]

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The Linguistics of Desistance

Raymond Lunn — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 06:08:36 +0000

The language of desistance for those that live it, is not in words but rather behaviour – the destiny of accumulative changes in a rehabilitative context. The language of “desistance” is solely the preserve of the academic, researcher or practitioner. It’s another academically constructed word for the observation of behavioural changes, or at least that’s [...]

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Mistress of Identity

Tracey McMahon — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:39:44 +0000

Identity theft is a criminal offence, but what happens when identity is not available to be stolen? Tracey McMahon

Identity details are in a vast range of legal and binding documents. My passport informs those who scan it, that I am female. My driving licence tells me I am female, as does my birth certificate; [...]

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Care to Listen!

Natalie Atkinson — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:50:02 +0000

Is there such a thing as a good day as a prisoner? Well I guess it would depend on what one would class as ‘good’. Many would class a good day as just being able to mark another day off the calendar. For first time offenders getting through your first day without someone [...]

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Diagnosing the Illness of Desistance

Raymond Lunn — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 09:09:20 +0000

Becoming ill, the illness can sometimes not be diagnosed, symptoms show themselves yet, professionals fail to find the problem. The concern in terms of understanding desistance is, it’s becoming misunderstood. Our increased awareness of the phenomenon subjects it to what I would describe as unhealthy elements translating it into practice. Is it becoming undiagnosed of [...]

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Being Human

Raymond Lunn — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:51:50 +0000

Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one [...]

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A Voice for “Victims” in Desistance

Farah Damji — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:12:20 +0000

Anyone who read The Times interview of Javed Khan CEO of Victim Support might be right in thinking he has become a paid instrument of the State. I respect Javed’s tireless work and all that he does, greatly. However his comments about barristers grandstanding to get the next big case, as in the [...]

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To Save or Not to Save (Probation)

Raymond Lunn — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:00:33 +0000

My position at this moment in time is clear, I don’t want probation to be ‘sold off’. I don’t want the practices of public safety and the rehabilitation of offenders to be sold to private enterprise. The risks are great. The future for desisters from crime is they become commodities for very powerful [...]

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