TY - JOUR
T1 - The challenge of working with racially motivated offenders
T2 - An exercise in ambivalence?
AU - Mcghee, Derek
PY - 2007/9/1
Y1 - 2007/9/1
N2 - A Probation Circular published in 2005 announced that accredited one-to-one programmes should be developed for Racially Motivated Offenders (RMOs). This article reviews a number of existing literatures written by both practitioners and academics which have focused on the problems and opportunities that arise during interventions with RMOs. At the same time, in this article, insights derived from the latter literatures are contextualized within poststructuralist and discursive psychological literatures. The outcome of this is an attempt to forge common ground between practitioner-derived insights on racism, racists, identity, locality and shared ‘communities of prejudice’ with poststructuralist approaches to identity and the advancement of specific therapeutic/correctionalist techniques (especially the motivational interviewing technique pioneered by Miller and Rollnick, 1991) for facilitating change processes in RMOs.
AB - A Probation Circular published in 2005 announced that accredited one-to-one programmes should be developed for Racially Motivated Offenders (RMOs). This article reviews a number of existing literatures written by both practitioners and academics which have focused on the problems and opportunities that arise during interventions with RMOs. At the same time, in this article, insights derived from the latter literatures are contextualized within poststructuralist and discursive psychological literatures. The outcome of this is an attempt to forge common ground between practitioner-derived insights on racism, racists, identity, locality and shared ‘communities of prejudice’ with poststructuralist approaches to identity and the advancement of specific therapeutic/correctionalist techniques (especially the motivational interviewing technique pioneered by Miller and Rollnick, 1991) for facilitating change processes in RMOs.
KW - ambiguity
KW - denial
KW - hate crime
KW - motivational interviewing
KW - poststructuralism
KW - racisms
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U2 - 10.1177/0264550507080373
DO - 10.1177/0264550507080373
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84993825433
SN - 0264-5505
VL - 54
SP - 213
EP - 226
JO - Probation Journal
JF - Probation Journal
IS - 3
ER -