Redirecting the Motivation to Offend

  • Sarah V. Marsden
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Abstract

Significant barriers face those moving away from extremism, which in turn can have a tangible effect on the motivation to re-engage positively with the wider community. This chapter looks at how practitioners sought to elicit motivation from and provide support for those they worked with to build a more positive future. Developing the implications of this discussion, the chapter goes on to reframe how the process of moving away from extremism is conceptualised. Instead of the broad process models currently prevalent in the literature, the chapter argues we should instead consider how individuals may be encouraged to pursue primary human goods, such as relatedness, spirituality, community and agency, which have been recognised as important in the move towards and away from offending, most notably in the Good Lives Model.

Keywords

Good Lives Model (GLM) Barriers to reintegration Human goods Motivation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Sarah V. Marsden
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  1. 1.Politics, Philosophy and ReligionLancaster UniversityLancasterUnited Kingdom

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