This study aims to better understand how criminal justice practitioners organize community supervision for individuals incarcerated for a sexual crime (IISC), in a context where they are confronted to their clients’ obstacles to social reintegration, professional tensions and principles guiding their interventions (risk-need-responsivity). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 practitioners affiliated to Quebec Correctional Services. Thematic analysis reveals that practitioners shape community supervision based on the stigmatization context that surrounds the community re-entry of IISC, which translates into limited means for intervention and high needs in terms of basic necessities, identity and social relations. Within this conjuncture, they adopt seemingly contradictory interventions that combine both (1) prioritizing the basic, social and identity needs they believe to be those most likely to promote social reintegration for this population, and (2) complying with societal pressures regarding the risk management of IISC re-entering the community. These findings suggest that practitioners adapt community supervision to arbitrarily selected intervention priorities, revealing, simultaneously, blind spots in the risk-need-responsivity principles when it comes to supporting IISC during community re-entry.
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More details: https://doi.org/10.7202/1129105ar
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