Belinda Winder (Nottingham Trent University) Helen Elliott (Nottingham Trent University) Rebecca Lievesley (Nottingham Trent University) Helen Elliott (Nottingham Trent University) Belinda Winder (Nottingham Trent University) Michelle DwerryHouse (Nottingham Trent University) Nicholas Blagden (Nottingham Trent University) Rebecca Lievesley (Nottingham Trent University) Presentation Kieran McCartan (University of the 4 West of England.) Panel session 3: Circles in Practice In Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) volunteers and professionals work together at the safe reintegration of medium to high risk sex offenders in order to reduce sexual reoffending. Since its development in Canada in 1994, the CoSA model has gained recognition from experts and researchers in the field of sex offender rehabilitation. CoSA has shown to be effective in Canada and the USA and has achieved promising results in the UK and the Netherlands. While the CoSA model looks simple, it is not a method or a protocol, that can be copy-pasted easily into any given national context. CoSA is based on community involvement and involvement of a local network of professional organisations. Since Europe counts almost 50 different sovereign states and each nation has its own jurisdiction and set of institutions involved in sex offender management, the possibilities for CoSA and the issues that need to be solved to be able to start a CoSA project are different in Each country. In this workshop, CoSA practitioners from different European countries will illustrate how they dealt with the challenges and opportunities in their projects. Chair Mechtild Hoing (Avans University of Applied Sciences) Mechtild Höing (Avans University of Applied Sciences) Presentation 2 Liga Rasnaca (Latvia University) Presentation 3 Ann Castrel (Centrum Algemeen Welzijnswerk Antwerp) Carlos Soler (Justice Department of Catalonia (Spain))
Belinda Winder (Nottingham Trent University) Helen Elliott (Nottingham Trent University) Rebecca Lievesley (Nottingham Trent University) Helen Elliott (Nottingham Trent University) Belinda Winder (Nottingham Trent University) Michelle DwerryHouse (Nottingham Trent University) Nicholas Blagden (Nottingham Trent University) Rebecca Lievesley (Nottingham Trent University) Presentation 4 Kieran McCartan (University of the West of England.) Panel session 3: Circles in Practice In Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) volunteers and professionals work together at the safe reintegration of medium to high risk sex offenders in order to reduce sexual reoffending. Since its development in Canada in 1994, the CoSA model has gained recognition from experts and researchers in the field of sex offender rehabilitation. CoSA has shown to be effective in Canada and the USA and has achieved promising results in the UK and the Netherlands. While the CoSA model looks simple, it is not a method or a protocol, that can be copy-pasted easily into any given national context. CoSA is based on community involvement and involvement of a local network of professional organisations. Since Europe counts almost 50 different sovereign states and each nation has its own jurisdiction and set of institutions involved in sex offender management, the possibilities for CoSA and the issues that need to be solved to be able to start a CoSA project are different in Each country. In this workshop, CoSA practitioners from different European countries will illustrate how they dealt with the challenges and opportunities in their projects. Chair Mechtild Hoing (Avans University of Applied Sciences) Mechtild Höing (Avans University of Applied Sciences) Presentation 2 Liga Rasnaca (Latvia University) Presentation 3 Ann Castrel (Centrum Algemeen Welzijnswerk Antwerp) Carlos Soler (Justice Department of Catalonia (Spain))