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 ReoffendingIan Mahoney and Rahmanara ChowdhuryPart 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 AndellChapter 3: Reimagining Prison-Community Transitions through ‘Resettlement Passports’: Critical Reflections on Citizenship, Stigma and SocietyPaul Hamilton and Joseph Hale Chapter 4: The Digital Desistance ManifestoVictoria Knight, Sarah Elison-Davies, Helen Farley and James TangenChapter 5: The Multiple Faces of Electronic Monitoring: Considering its potential as a holistic response for (re)integration, (re)settlement, and reducing reoffendingRafaela Granja and Sílvia GomesPart 2 – Consideration of Specific Population GroupsChapter 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 ChowdhuryChapter 8: Lessons from public criminology for the reintegration of men with sexual convictions post-imprisonmentKirsty TeaguePart 3 – Re-imagining support within Holistic FrameworksChapter 9: ‘This Has Honestly Changed My Life’ – Evaluating the Efficacy of Community Sentence Treatment RequirementsJennifer Hough and Rachel EvansChapter 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 ParsonsConclusionsChapter 11: Future Directions in Frameworks of Holistic Approaches in (Re)integration and (Re)settlementRahmanara Chowdhury and Ian Mahoney