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100			_aMcAlinden, Anne-Marie _937362
245			_aReconceptualising ‘risk’: Towards a humanistic paradigm of sexual offending
260			_aSocial and Legal Studies
300			_a31(3), Jun, 2022: 389-408
520			_aWithin Western criminal justice traditions, the ‘risk’ paradigm has become the defining logic of contemporary laws and policies on sex offender management. This article critically examines the limitations of current technocratic and algorithmic approaches to risk in relation to sexual offending and how they might be addressed. Drawing on nearly two decades of theoretical and empirical research conducted by the author, it applies the learning on sex offender reintegration and desistance to advance a ‘humanistic’ paradigm of sexual offending. The paper attempts to counter some of the dangers of algorithmic justice and shift risk-based discourse away from its predominantly ‘scientific’ origins. It argues that such a move towards a more expansive and progressive version of risk within criminal justice discourses would better capture the realities of sexual offending behaviour and its real-world governance.- Reproduced
650			_aActuarial justice, Algorithmic justice, Desistance, New penology, Reintegration, Risk, Sexual offending. _935730
773			_aSocial and Legal Studies
906			_aSEXUAL OFFENCE
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