Recent years have seen an increased focus on “EpiCrim” approaches to managing offenders within the community. This has included high risk offenders, particularly, but not exclusively, sex offenders. This chapter will review the critical ingredients of such an approach and how it might be effectively embedded into existing multi-agency public protection arrangements for the community management of sexual and violent offenders. The chapter will recommend both policy and practical changes that are likely to enhance the effective use of “EpiCrim” in multi-agency responses, including how individual agencies might benefit from such an approach, but also how a consistent, collective use of EpiCrim might strengthen multi-agency work. In particular, the shift from largely reactive responses to offending towards an “upstream” approach of increased prevention work within communities could have both societal and financial benefits going forward, particularly important as we enter another age of austerity. The chapter will include “helpful hints” for those policy makers, managers and practitioners keen to adopt an “EpiCrim” approach in multi-agency settings.

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What Can “EpiCrim” Approaches Contribute to the Effective Multi-Agency Management of High Risk Offenders in the Community?

  • Hazel Kemshall

摘要

Recent years have seen an increased focus on “EpiCrim” approaches to managing offenders within the community. This has included high risk offenders, particularly, but not exclusively, sex offenders. This chapter will review the critical ingredients of such an approach and how it might be effectively embedded into existing multi-agency public protection arrangements for the community management of sexual and violent offenders. The chapter will recommend both policy and practical changes that are likely to enhance the effective use of “EpiCrim” in multi-agency responses, including how individual agencies might benefit from such an approach, but also how a consistent, collective use of EpiCrim might strengthen multi-agency work. In particular, the shift from largely reactive responses to offending towards an “upstream” approach of increased prevention work within communities could have both societal and financial benefits going forward, particularly important as we enter another age of austerity. The chapter will include “helpful hints” for those policy makers, managers and practitioners keen to adopt an “EpiCrim” approach in multi-agency settings.