Review: Myths, risks & sexuality (The role of sexuality in working with people) Karen Buckley and Paul Head (eds) Russell House Publishing, 2000; pp134; £14.95, pbk ISBN 1-898924-36-8
| Published date | 01 September 2000 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455050004700321 |
| Author | Karen Estill |
| Date | 01 September 2000 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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authors
suggest
that
unless
control
is
reduced
increased
alienation
and
brutalization
will
harm
offenders.
They
argue
for
the
social
contract
to
be
restored
through
the
recognition
of
the
centrality
of
trust.
Reduced
control,
they
believe,
will
foster
autonomy
and
in
the
area
of
risk
&dquo;to
be
free
to
act
well
is
to
be
free
to act
badly.&dquo;
Chapters
3
and
5
are
outstanding.
In
Chapter
3
Bill
Beaumont
provides
an
analytical
review
of
the
research
around
risk in
relation
to
offending.
He
uses
this
as
background
to
Chapter
5
which
describes
how
the
current
preoccupation
with
risk
in
government
policy
highlights
a
return
to
a
classic
theme
of
criminological
study
from
Lombroso
onwards.
He
argues
against collapsing
into
defensive
practice.
The
remainder
of
the
Chapters
examine
assessment
of
risk
to
and
from
children,
old
people,
those
who
are
mentally
ill
and
social
services
staff.
Finally,
the
collection
is
concluded
by
an
interesting
discussion
on
training
professionals
in risk
assessment
and
risk
management.
It
advocates
the
use
of
concepts
of
law
to
justify
and
improve
risk
decisions
thereby
operating
in
a
more
positive
framework.
This
book
is
a
valuable
collection
of
papers.
I
am
optimistic
that
its
qualitative
foundations
can
be
built
upon
and
lead
to
a
more
rounded
approach
for
practitioners
in
an
uncertain
world.
Whilst
my
initial
hopes
for
the
book
were
perhaps
somewhat
naive,
it
has
provided
some
clarity
and
a
much
welcomed
alternative
approach
to
the
current
defensive
framework
I
am
practising
in.
It
is
well
worth
a
read,
if
only
for
Bill
Beaumont’s
input.
Andrea
Haith
Probation
Officer,
Humberside
Myths,
risks
&
sexuality
(The
role
of
sexuality
in
working
with
people)
Karen
Buckley
and
Paul
Head
(eds)
Russell
House
Publishing,
2000;
pp134;
£14.95,
pbk
ISBN
1-898924-36-8
&dquo;Whilst
many
of
us
have had
our
best
and
most
uplifting
experiences
through
the
exercise
of
our
sexuality,
equally
some
have
had
their
most
profoundly
abusive
and
damaging
experiences
in
the
sexual
arena.&dquo;
From
this
discomfiting
beginning
the
editors
of
this
book
introduce
a
volume
with
the
avowed
aim
of
publicising
some
of
the
&dquo;interesting
practice
out
there&dquo;,
an
aim
in
which
they
succeed
admirably.
What
they
also
succeeded
in
doing
for
me
as
a
reader,
was
extending
and
developing
my
own
practice
approaches
to
address
stereotypical
views
around
sexuality,
both
personally
and
structurally.
This
collection
of
essays
is
entirely
practitioner
based,
and
as
such
offers
an
honest
and
refreshing
insight
into
areas
of
work
which
may
literally
never
have
occurred
to
some
of
us.
Whilst
reading,
the
most
frightening
thought
was
not
that
I
might
have
to
face
the
dilemmas
involved
in
dealing
with
sexually
diverse
offenders,
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