Home is where the start is: qualitatively exploring the role of accommodation in desistance, for people with sexual convictions living in the U.K.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Attaining accommodation upon prison release is a key reintegration need. It is recognised by academics, policy makers, and practitioners, as an important risk factor to consider. This consideration, however, largely focuses on the importance of accommodation in terms of attaining a structural dwelling. Furthermore, many investigations do not consider the unique experiences of people with sexual convictions, who arguably require distinct considerations due to added risk management and increased stigma. This research explored the holistic accommodation experiences of men with sexual offences, now living within the community. Interviews were conducted with 15 men who had all served a prison sentence for a sexual offence. Participants discussed what they needed from their accommodation, emphasising desires for a sense of ownership, autonomy, control, safety, and socialisation. These needs were immaterial, reflecting psychosocial and affective ties to accommodation, capturing the importance of home. By considering these components of living spaces, theoretical comparisons are drawn between factors contributing to home and factors contributing to desistance. Accommodation is not merely important as a physical building necessary for risk reduction, but also as a place for individuals to ascertain feelings of home, facilitating an individual’s ability to desist, and lead a positive, offence-free, life.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".