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Situating the Sample, Meeting the Men, and Telling Their Stories

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Desistance from Sexual Offending

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This chapter outlines the methodological approaches of the study. It provides a detailed consideration of what was done, who was interviewed, how data were collected, and why. I provide a context for the data by situating the time and place the original archival materials were collected, as well as the process of identifying, locating, and interviewing the men. This chapter explains the complicated process of liaising and cooperating with front-line staff; reviewing archival clinical records; coding various risk assessment tools; and conducting, recording, coding, and analyzing the interviews.

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    SHU: Secure Housing Unit; IMS: Inmate Management System; CAB: Community Access Board.

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Harris, D.A. (2017). Situating the Sample, Meeting the Men, and Telling Their Stories. In: Desistance from Sexual Offending. Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63200-1_3

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