Gunning, To Be Arrested, At This Rate - Excellent

https://www.facebook.com/dokota.hunter

*****

https://www.facebook.com/dokota.hunter

https://www.facebook.com/huntersgetmorals/videos/1522986964476180

https://www.facebook.com/huntersgetmorals/videos/1522986964476180

https://www.facebook.com/dokota.hunter/videos/131479097658939

Because, the prison/court/PPU/NPS, would be oblivious, to all this, right?

Can you spell 'Safe House' - Idiots.

https://www.facebook.com/stylz123

https://www.facebook.com/stylz123

https://youtu.be/gFL8BMzaK40

Where and when, was your 'abuse', court case, Mr Wittwer? 

https://www.facebook.com/TheUKdatabase/videos/939472349542122
 

The support was good

The remainder, is incorrect, ignorant, biased, dangerous, fantasy, post-facto, vigilante, hater, thug, rationalisation.

A man, seen, by the courts, not to be dangerous, received a sentence, you did not like.

You, caused all this, the moment, you created, the decoy(s).

Learn and Stop. 

Warehouse worker, Chris Wittwer, is better, than, His Honour Judge Cottle, at law

https://www.facebook.com/stylz123/posts/1548669545249257
 

 https://www.facebook.com/stylz123

More inane, incorrect, hysterical, dangerous, fear-mongering, nonsense

https://www.facebook.com/justiceforthekids2017

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You, created, this.

You, are to, blame.

You, are poisonous, ignorant, stupid, thugs.

It is, very, simple - KEEP YOUR, LOW-LIFE, STUPID, DANGEROUS, NOSES, OUT OF, OTHER PEOPLE'S, BUSINESS

We need to know, who this, vile, passive-aggressive, ill-informed, ill-educated, hateful, socially-toxic, woman is ...

Of course, she will, actually, believe all this, being a 'Wittwer Fantasist'. 

If you must ... YOU GO TO THE POLICE ... nothing else.

Then, go back, to your, empty, vacuous, hateful, pointless, life.

Not about that, though, now was it?

20/1/18, 1:45; https://www.facebook.com/dokota.hunter/posts/131854180954764

p.s. no, Paedophiles or Predators, involved, here.

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We do have to say, if the police action, after her attack, was as described, by Mr Wittwer etc, there are questions, to be asked; but not, for the reasons, he/they, may be asking them. Full credit, for assisting, the poor man.

https://www.facebook.com/stylz123

https://www.facebook.com/DeCNTersDDR

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The OSC

Information to therealosc@gmail.com, as usual, please.

More to follow.

*****

https://www.facebook.com/DeCNTersDDR

https://www.facebook.com/huntermoralsgone

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1911748565820053

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2300078663551873

https://www.facebook.com/groups/188052725269795

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Prologue - Sins and Sons of Stinson

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/sins-and-sons-of-stinson.html

Why Paedophile Hunters [Sic] And Their Friends, Antis, Vigilantes And Their Aggressive Thralls, Do What They Do

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/why-paedophile-sic-hunters-antis-and.html

There Is Now No Need (Still) For The Paedophile Hunters [Sic] To Meet Their Prey - Ever

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/there-is-now-no-need-still-for-hunters.html

Paedophile Hunters [Sic] And Their Friends - Why They Are Pointless, Time-Wasting, Resource-Wasting, Ignorant, Hater, Fools

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/paedohunters-sic-and-their-friends-why_16.html

Tracking And Understanding, The Recent And Faltering, 'Hunter' And Follower, Pandemic, Moral Panic And Hysteria 

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/tracking-and-understanding-recent-and.html 

Vigilante Paedophile [Sic] Hunting Groups In The UK Are Out Of Control

https://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/vigilante-paedophile-sic-hunting-groups.html

You Know It Is All Over, Go Now, With A Modicum Of Integrity 

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/you-know-it-is-all-over-go-now-with.html

We Love, The Smell Of Inevitability, In The Afternoon

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/we-love-smell-of-inevitability-in.html 

The Reasons, 'Hunters' Do Not Do, What They Should Be Doing

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-reasons-hunters-do-not-do-what-they.html
 
One More Nail, In The Coffin, Of Any Future Legal Authority

https://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/one-more-nail-in-coffin-of-any-legal.html

The 'Hunters' Are Restless

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-hunters-are-restless.html

Not The First Time, These Simpleton Reprobates, Have Caused Conflict, Social Unrest And Public Order Issues

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/not-first-time-these-simpleton.html

Slowy, But, Surely 

https://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/slowy-but-surely.html

Could Not Have Happened, To A Nastier, Guy (Well, Perhaps, A Few More, A Bit Nastier)

https://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/could-not-have-happened-to-nastier-guy.html

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The Likes Of Stinson Hunter's Prey And Sex With 'Kids' - Get A Clue !!! 

http://therealosc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/stinson-hunters-prey-and-sex-with-kids.html

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If you are affected, by any of the issues, raised, here ...

MAPs - you are not alone - very much, not alone ...

http://www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk - stopitnow.org.uk - circles-uk.org.uk - http://www.virped.org - http://b4uact.org - https://www.stopso.org.uk 

http://preventell.se/?lang=en - http://www.nemup.de/index_eng.html - https://1in6.org - www.boychat.org - www.annabelleigh.net

http://www.thepreventionproject.org - https://www.csaprimaryprevention.org - https://medium.com/@TNF_13 - https://medium.com/@enderphile - https://medium.com/@DaywalkerVirPed - https://medium.com/pedophiles-about-pedophilia

https://www.samaritans.org

Tor versions, available, for most downlinks.

Thank you.

The OSC

Licence To Thrill

January 2014

On licence for a sex offence [sic]

"By Francesca Cooney Advice & Information Manager Prison Reform Trust

The Prison Reform Trust has produced a new leaflet.

On licence for a sex offence [sic]

The Prison Reform Trust has produced a new leaflet. This is for people who are on licence for a conviction for a sex offence [sic]. The leaflet covers release on licence, the sex offenders' register [sic], police monitoring of sex offenders [sic] (MAPPA), SOPO (Sex Offences [sic] Prevention Orders) and when information can be disclosed about you."

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1658&c=on_licence_for_a_sex_offence

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On Licence for a sex offence? Prison Reform Trust has produced a new leaflet. January Inside Time - on-line NOW! http://t.co/O665cmDNwW
— Inside Time (@InsideTimeUK) January 2, 2014

(Embedded Tweet - click date)

The Day We Chatted With The Establishment Brainwashers

Staff at sex offender treatment team been planning 2 x 6hr therapeutic sessions on victims and risk for today. #gmpt24 @gmptprobationPR
— Mark L-K (@PreventSexAbuse) December 12, 2013

Often used phrase in work on sexual fantasy - "You can't stop a bird landing on your head, but you can stop it making a nest". #gmpt24
— Mark L-K (@PreventSexAbuse) December 12, 2013

Across GMPT, waiting lists for men to access sex offence treatment programmes are now at an all time low. Massive impact on risk #gmpt24
— Mark L-K (@PreventSexAbuse) December 12, 2013

RT @StJosephs_GMPT: #GMPT24 From 4-5pm you can ask questions about St Josephs AP. Just tweet us!
— GMPT (@gmptprobationPR) December 12, 2013

(Embedded Tweets - click date)

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Convince us, that you are not, Mark. 

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OK, now we have made those points ;) ... A 'good thing', we believe - good luck ...

Delighted @MENnewsdesk covering Twitterthon, giving probation chance to discuss importance of our work. #GMPT24 pic.twitter.com/NSjY4L6Iys
— GMPT (@gmptprobationPR) December 11, 2013

(Embedded Tweet - click date)

Liberty Or Not

August 2013

At liberty to do what

"Emma Davies, Head of the Prison Law department at Hine Solicitors, together with Michaela Henderson-Thynne of the Department look at licence conditions

Prisoners who have been subject to a sentence of 12 months or over and who are released from custody into the community will be subject to a licence period as part of their sentence. This licence period will include numerous licence conditions. In the latter part of last year a new Prison Service Instrument (PSI) 40/2012 was introduced dealing with the issue of licence conditions. This article examines some of the main principles of that PSI to inform prisoners who may soon be subject to release on licence of these principles and what they need to watch out for."

Internet related licence conditions. 

"There were previously very onerous additional licence conditions that could be imposed which related to computer and internet access. These can no longer be imposed upon newly released prisoners unless they are imposed as bespoke licence conditions (see 2.20 of PSI 40/2012).

An application for these old additional conditions will therefore need to be made to the Public Procircumtection Casework Section [Public Protection Casework Section] (PPCS) at the Ministry of Justice. They will then only form part of a prisoner's licence as a bespoke condition if permission is granted by the PPCS.

However there are still additional conditions that can be imposed upon a prisoner, without the need for permission from the PPCS, which relate to computer access/ownership. These are worded differently and are set out at 2.20 of PSI 40/2012."

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1556&c=at_liberty_to_do_what

If You Are Going To Pretend To Do Something, Then, At Least, Do That

Monday, May 27, 2013 9:00 AM

Suffolk: Outrage [yawn] after sex offenders have treatment delayed for six months due to staff sickness

"Suffolk’s police commissioner and one of the county’s MPs have both expressed their disbelief after discovering a treatment programme for sex offenders was delayed for six months.

Probation officers have said the course was deferred due to staff sickness. However, during the six-month delay one of the offenders - convicted paedophile [sic] Daniel Veness - sexually abused a five-year-old girl.

Although Veness’ case was reported last month, a Freedom of Information request has now revealed five other convicts [sic] were also due to be on the Thames Valley Treatment Programme at the same time.

The admission has led Waveney MP Peter Aldous to brand the situation as unacceptable, while Suffolk’s Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore called it “absolutely ridiculous”.

However, Norfolk and Suffolk Probation Service said there was no specific requirement as to how quickly someone should begin the treatment, only that they should complete it by the end of their sentence."

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/anger_over_suffolk_sex_offenders_treatment_delay_1_2211151

Suffolk: Outrage [yawn] after sex offenders have treatment delayed for six months due to staff sickness

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/suffolk_outrage_after_sex_offenders_have_treatment_delayed_for_six_months_due_to_staff_sickness_1_2211060

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Convicted paedophile [sic], 23, attacked a sleeping five-year-old girl after his sex offenders treatment was cancelled

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311527/Convicted-paedophile-23-attacked-sleeping-year-old-girl-sex-offenders-treatment-cancelled.html

Convicted paedophile [sic] abused girl, 5, after probation rehab course delayed due to holiday

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/convicted-paedophile-abused-girl-5-1842635

Suffolk: Sex offender commits horrific attack [sic] on child - after his treatment was cancelled due to ‘lack of resources’

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/suffolk_sex_offender_commits_horrific_attack_on_child_after_his_treatment
_was_cancelled_due_to_lack_of_resources_1_2086188

It Is Called Friendship (As Much As It Can Be) And Self-Preservation, Carla

Posted on May 16, 2013

Sex offenders – Do probation approved premises perpetuate the problem [?]?

"Carla Reeves is a Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader in Criminology. Here, following the conviction of seven men in Oxfordshire for sexual exploitation, rape and trafficking of young girls, she talks about her research into sex offenders forming detrimental relationships [sic] with other sex offenders in probation approved premises.

For this work I spent two years talking to people who lived and worked in a probation hostel and observing life within it."

"I focussed on those with convictions for sexual offences and saw that the resident ex-prisoners formed themselves into groups based on their offence (even though this was mean to be unknown to the residents) and within those groups they supported each other’s minimisations of their offending or other risky behaviours, as well as undermining the work of the agencies working with them [really, how?].

These groups were powerful in their influence over the members of the group as they helped to create a social identity of ‘sex offender’ which reinforced the individual’s personal identity of this. An identity that was not only formed through their offences, but also through the ritualised labelling process of the being convicted and sentenced, imprisoned and then managed through release.

It is important to realise that these hostels reflect the culture of prison [well, not quite] where, once someone is identified as a sex offender (or even suspected of this) they are very low status in the prison hierarchy and are frequently subjected to bullying, assaults and other victimisation which necessitates them being placed in sections designed to hold vulnerable prisoners.

This segregation in prison is maintained through the grouping in the hostel and through the way they are treated and managed by staff so that any attempts to reject this label and identity are very difficult to achieve. Without this ‘moving on’ by the prisoner it is difficult to work with them to support their desistance from crime."

http://blogs.hud.ac.uk/academics/blog/2013/05/16/sex-offenders-do-probation-approved-premises-perpetuate-the-problem/

Chris Grayling Has Another Brain Fart

9:20PM BST 08 May 2013

All prisoners face a year of supervision upon release

"Low-level criminals who spend a few weeks or months in prison will be supervised for a year in the community after their release in an attempt to cut “shameful levels” of reoffending, the Justice Secretary will announce.

All prisoners face a year of supervision upon release.

In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Mr Grayling describes the current system as 'mad'.

Every prisoner will have to complete a year-long period of supervision that will see them returned to jail if they misbehave, under laws to toughen up the probation regime.

The plans were outlined in a Rehabilitation Bill contained in today’s Queen’s Speech. The details of the legislation will be disclosed tomorrow by Chris Grayling. It will include a pledge to introduce so-called “resettlement prisons” to relocate inmates nearing release closer to their homes.

The “rehabilitation revolution” will involve about 65,000 criminals every year being subject to lengthy community supervision — in addition to their prison sentences."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10045362/All-prisoners-face-a-year-of-supervision-upon-release.html

Queen's Speech: Probation 'extended to all offenders'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22446246

Payment-by-results plan for offender supervision under fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22452239

It Is How They Operate

Thursday 21 March 2013 15.24 GMT

Probation officers face social media gag as outsourcing row rumbles on

"Justice secretary tells staff they risk disciplinary action if they publicly 'undermine' plan to outsource their work with offenders

Probation officers have been warned that failure to comply with the social media gag could result in suspension.

The justice secretary, Chris Grayling, has issued instructions that probation officers face the risk of disciplinary action if they publicly criticise on Twitter or other social media his plans to outsource 70% of their work with offenders.

The wide-ranging gag includes "any comments that are made in criticism or designed to undermine the justice secretary's policy or actions", and even warns that retweeting others' comments will be taken as "incitement or approval".

The ban was announced by Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the national offender management service, which runs prisons and probation, in a recent teleconference call with probation trust chief executives.

"He advised that the government are unhappy with CEOs and other senior managers being critical of government policy, regarding Transforming Rehabilitation on Twitter," said one probation trust senior manager.

"He told them to behave like civil servants as they are being paid by the government. So much for free speech and democracy. It seems government policy cannot be questioned in public arenas. I am furious that staff and managers are effectively being gagged in asking questions and objecting to the direction of travel.""

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/21/probation-officers-social-media-gag-outsourcing

As Good As The Work Programme?

Wednesday 9 January 2013

Private firms to take over bulk of the probation service

"Justice secretary says radical measures are necessary to tackle high rate of short-sentenced prisoners reoffending within a year

Inmates at a young offenders unit: more than 240,000 offenders are currently supervised by the probation service each year.

The justice secretary, Chris Grayling, is to outline plans for the wholesale outsourcing of the probation service with private companies and voluntary sector organisations to take over the rehabilitation of the majority of offenders by 2015.

The public probation service is to be scaled back and "refocused" to specialise in dealing only with the most dangerous and high-risk offenders and public protection cases. The majority of services will be contracted out on a payment-by -result basis."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/09/probation-service-private-firms-grayling?CMP=twt_gu

The dangers of payment-by-results in probation

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/01/dangers-graylings-payment-results-scheme

Probation service 'revolution' means wholesale privatisation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/09/probation-service-private-firms-grayling?CMP=twt_gu

Grayling admits probation privatisation will not cut reoffending dramatically

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/09/chris-grayling-probation-privatisation-reoffending?CMP=twt_gu

9 January, 2013 - 17:40

Is the probation service keeping criminals in check?

"Liz Calderbank, the Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales, alluded to this trend when she said on the BBC’s Today programme that the work of the Probation Service has made a difference in the rate of reoffending.

“The Probation Service is current, and generally speaking, a well-performing service,” she said. “It’s gone through a number of financial cuts in the past few years, yet it’s continued to meet its targets.” Furthermore, the Probation Service won an excellence award in 2011."

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/probation_service_reoffending_rates_chris_grayling-28700

Priti Patel - Stick - Wrong End - Again

PUBLISHED: 00:01, 19 December 2012 | UPDATED: 00:36, 19 December 201

Nearly 50,000 criminals spared jail offend again within a year: MPs claim 'shocking' figures show failure by probation officers

"Convicts including violent thugs spared jail committed another offence

Tory MPs have said figures show a problem with the probation service

Justice Secretary announced plans to tackle entrenched reoffending

"Around 50,000 criminals who were spared jail went on to commit another crime within a year, figures revealed yesterday.

The convicts – including violent thugs, burglars and drug dealers – were handed community service or a suspended jail term, leaving them free to commit new crimes.

Within 12 months, a total of 49,636 offenders who were not put behind bars were convicted of another offence. Had they been jailed, they would have been unable to offend again."

"Tory MP Priti Patel said: ‘These are quite shocking figures. They demonstrate the true extent of reoffending. ‘There is clearly a problem with the probation service which is not working well to deal with this issue."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250255/Nearly-50-000-criminals-spared-jail-offend-year-MPs-claim-shocking-figures-failure-probation-officers.html

With Nothing To Lose

5 December 2012 08.30 GMT

Charity takes holistic approach to supporting sex offenders

"Circles UK's volunteers work alongside police and probation services in running a programme to cut reoffending

Ex-offender James says: 'If you imagine a pile of Lego bricks scattered across a table, when I joined Circles I was only just building the foundations back together.'

When James was released from prison, a year after being convicted for several child sex offences, he felt vulnerable and alone. "There was a lot of just sitting, staring at four walls and twiddling my thumbs," he explains. "It was boring, tedious and frustrating."

The common scenario James found himself in while on licence is also a dangerous one. Statistics show rates of recidivism of between 30% and 50% for serious sexual offenders [quote your sources]. Isolation and a lack of normal social interaction can be a significant trigger for reoffending.

This is where Circles UK has been making an impact. The charity works alongside police and probation services to provide convicted sex offenders with "circles of support and accountability", small groups of public volunteers who ensure the offender, or "core member", makes a smooth transition back into society. So far the success rate is impressive, of the 160 offenders it has supported since pilot projects began in 2002, only eight have been reconvicted.

"Without support we end up with an isolated, potentially dangerous offender with nothing to lose," says Annabel Francis, co-ordinator for Circles East of England."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/dec/05/circles-uk-charity-supporting-sex-offenders

As Soon As We See The Term 'CSAI', We Know Where It Is Going

The British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol. 13 Iss: 4 pp. 221 - 234

What we know [sic] about men [some] who download child abuse images [sic]

"Abstract

Purpose – This review aims to focus on men who access, download, and circulate child abuse images [sic] across the internet as the most frequently occurring type of internet sex offender.
[sic]

Design/methodology/approach – Some of the misconceptions associated with this behaviour are outlined and the extent to which internet offenders display some of the criminogenic factors thought to be associated with the multi-factorial theories of sexual offending are reviewed.

Findings – One conclusion from this is paper is the general impression that internet offenders show many of the characteristics of paedophiles [sic]. Their theoretical importance is that they appear to be ‘‘desisters’’ from acting out their sexual interest in children by hands-on offending.

Originality/value – It is argued that there is a need for more research to stimulate our understanding of this type of offender. Furthermore, what of those who both download material and offend directly against children? They present a dilemma for the literature as some research would suggest that they are not entirely like the internet or the contact sexual offenders in their psychological make-up; they are the group most in need of reappraisal." [so, what you are saying, is, people who think different things, do different things?]

"Implications for practice

Internet offenders are psychologically very similar [?] to contact paedophiles [sic - do you mean they are just 'men']. Any claims that treatment [sic] is irrelevant do not stand up to careful examination.

Despite having similar psychological characteristics to paedophiles [sic], many internet sex offenders [sic] do desist (at least temporarily ['nice' weasel attack]) from hands-on offending. Desisting needs to be better understood.

The role of factors such as fantasies and cognitive distortions in offending may need revision.

There appears to be some damaging affect of abusive childhoods for some [!] offenders. Therapy [sic] should do more to address the deficits in the upbringings of offenders, although this does not condone their behaviour."

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1463-6646&volume=13&issue=4&articleid=17004011&show=pdf

Kerry Sheldon is a Research Fellow in the Peaks Academic and Research Unit at Rampton Hospital, Retford, UK.

Sexual fantasy in paedophile offenders: Can any model explain satisfactorily new findings from a study of Internet and contact sexual offenders?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/135532506X173045/abstract

Research in Practice for Forensic Professionals (Issues in Forensic Psychology)

"Kerry Sheldon is Research Fellow at Rampton High Secure Hospital. She has worked for the probation service in sex offender treatment and as a lecturer in psychology and criminology."

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Research-Practice-Forensic-Professionals-Psychology/dp/0415672724

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Comment: Detailed analysis to follow.

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Well, Wouldn't You?

Published: 22 hrs ago

Shannon Matthews kidnapper is back behind bars

"Loner breached parole

Back inside ... MD

THE kidnapper of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was last night back in prison for breaching parole.

Cops said loner MD, 44, was arrested for “poor behaviour”.

Witnesses said he had been acting bizarrely while sitting on a bench in a marketplace.

Days before his arrest, D — freed after serving half his eight-year sentence — had been recognised as the man who helped carry out the fake kidnap of Shannon, nine.

A man and a woman reportedly started “kneeing” him, spitting at him and hitting him round the head. One witness said: “They were shouting and screaming at him and calling him a nonce.

“I heard it went on for 45 minutes. I don’t think he was badly injured and no one called police.” D had been spending up to six hours a day at the outdoor market in Leeds.

He would sit on a bench and rock back and forth, making strange hand movements.

D had been living at a parole and bail hostel in Leeds.

Police picked him up on Monday after a request from parole officials. He was taken back to jail and is likely to be kept inside for 28 days while he is assessed."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4545399/Shannon-Matthews-kidnapper-is-back-behind-bars.html#ixzz26xI33YfB

What Else Is There In Most PSRs?

Last updated at 16:36, Tuesday, 04 September 2012

Barrow sex offender sentence adjourned after court report complaint

"A SEX offender awaiting sentence for offences against children has had his case put back after his legal representative complained about a court report.

ADJOURNED: KB, who admitted sex offences against a young girl under the age of 13

Judge Simon Newell adjourned sentence on KB for greater detail to be obtained about the man’s previous convictions and the circumstances in which the offences occurred.

Mr Richard Haworth, defending, asked for the case to be adjourned, claiming the pre-sentence report that had been drawn up on B by the probation service “overstepped the mark”.

Mr Haworth said: “There doesn’t appear on my reading and re-reading of the report to be one positive aspect which can be pointed to or identified within the report.

“It is, in effect, 13 pages of negative assessment, so far as Mr B is concerned.

“I submit there is criticism to be levelled at the way the matter has been presented before the court.

“It would be more helpful to the sentencing judge to have a report which is based upon fact and not speculation or fiction.”"

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow-sex-offender-sentence-adjourned-after-court-report-complaint-1.992081?referrerPath=news/west_cumbria

Unlikely To 'Work', In Any Case

Published: 6:16AM Wednesday August 22, 2012

Prostitute provided for paedophile 'more than once'

"Providing a paedophile with a prostitute dressed as a child to "fulfil needs" is unhelpful and would have no role in successful rehabilitation, a clinical psychologist says.

Corrections have launched an investigation into a probation officer who allegedly spoke about "helping" a sex offender by providing a sex worker in children's clothing.

The claims surfaced after a West Auckland resident - also being managed by the officer - recorded a meeting with him and made the tape available to media."

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/prostitute-role-in-recovery-no-help-psychologist-5039254

Prostitute provided for paedophile 'more than once'

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/7512211/Prostitute-allegedly-dressed-as-child-for-paedophile

Prostitute for paedophile claim 'lies' 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/7573024/Prostitute-for-paedophile-claim-lies

Officer fired over prostitute claim

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/7618539/Officer-fired-over-prostitute-claim

Long, But Well Worth It

Monday 2nd April 2012

A Reassurance Con? UK Public protection for modern times - Professor Mike Nash

"One of the paradoxes of public protection is that evidence tells us where most risk lies, but we appear determined to react to rare and ‘abnormal’ crimes committed by those presented as monsters. It is as if society needs to believe in these monsters as a means of reaffirming social norms and morality (Douard, 2008/9). Perceptions of dangerousness occur in a distinct context which appears to defy logic. For example, if people are afraid of the dark, putting on the light generally makes things better. In similar ways, there is the light of evidence in our understanding of dangerousness, but this knowledge does not appear to lower our fears, rather a pervasive belief in monsters and demons continues. These fears may feel very real to many people but are surely not the bedrock on which a modern public protection system should rest."

"There is a willingness to accept very illiberal measures and, in particular, to apply these to one particular form of offender (the sex offender) with only perhaps the terrorist suffering similar opprobrium. Brown (2010) developing Foucault’s work on the Abnormal (2003) suggests that rather than the sex offender being a monster and not one of us (O’Malley, 2000) he is instead the representation of ‘unencumbered human nature’; a product of the population itself rather than being apart from it. It is this Brown argues that both drives our fears and fuels our demands for viewing these offenders through the lens of dangerousness. In essence, we are afraid of ourselves."

"The UK has developed a public protection system predicated upon formulaic risk assessments and bureaucratic classification of offenders which leads to increased numbers within the ‘potentially dangerous’ category than arguably need be there. The sex offenders’ register is a classic example. It now has over 37000 people registered but over 35000 of these are classified as Level 1, which means single agency oversight (therefore by definition tending to be lower risk, although not necessarily). The point is that the overall number creates an impression of a massive amount of sex offender risk, when the reality is inclusion on the Register can result from a caution – in other words no criminal conviction. The Register consumes resources; current numbers require at least 37000 annual visits from the police, even at the lowest end of risk. Indeed, there were no additional resources provided when this requirement was introduced by the Labour government in 1997. The Register can provide a degree of monitoring but in terms of prevention is next to useless, although may well assist in detection. Even when backed by live GPS tracking, as I observed in South Korea, the system could track an offender to the scene of a sexual assault but not prevent it. Innovations such as the Register therefore offer pretence of protection but which, in many respects, might be construed as ‘false reassurance’. At the same time the Register’s very inclusiveness and size portrays an impression of a huge problem which in itself justifies more intrusive, restrictive and exclusionary measures. Thus it is hard to avoid the conclusion that many of our so called preventive measures (based on risk of harm assessments) are punishment by another name."

"The response of the prime minister to a recent Supreme Court ruling over sex offender registration periods illustrates this very well. On appeal by an offender subject to lifelong registration (which is triggered by a custodial sentence of 30 months or more), the court decided that continued registration should be determined by the risk posed by the offender (judgement by Lord Phillips, 2010). The Prime Minister, as a result, launched into a tirade against Europe and the ECHR (human rights issues not applying to sex offenders of course), but reluctantly conceded that the UK government would have to comply. However, he said that these offenders would have to remain on the register for 15 years before they could be risk assessed (but where is the evidence suggesting 15 years as the baseline for future risk?). He also indicated that the police would undertake the assessments and that he doubted that many would be deregistered; thus setting the (punitive) agenda well in advance. In a recent article (Nash, 2012), I advocated that our present system of automatic registration which is determined by the sentence imposed, should be reviewed and replaced by individual risk assessments. Here is another of those paradoxes where the government is now to do what I and others have suggested (but with lifelong registrants only), only to set a minimum registration period which is arguably more about punishment than ongoing risk."

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Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Prejudice Reinforced 

"'A reassurance con?' is a refreshingly candid canter through the fine mess we've created in the form of a supposed 'world-leading' risk assessment system lovingly known to us all as Mappa. With forensic detail he describes a burgeoning bureaucracy whose success is highly equivocal, consumes a vast amount of resources, has taken our eye off the ball and encouraged a false expectation on the part of the public."

http://probationmatters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/prejudice-reinforced.html