ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to enable the reader to look at people navigating the justice system through the lens of compassion. To better understand the criminogenic risk factors associated with unresolved adverse childhood experiences and trauma through a lived experience lens and professional practice within the justice system. To ask the reader to suspend the judgment that's already been past and ask curious questions like, what's going on? why is it going on? what's my role in recidivism as a justice practitioner, and how can I facilitate desistance? That the reader can understand at a deeper level that recidivism, desistance, and rehabilitation can always be distilled down to relationally enriching experiences in safe, predictable non-stressed environments. To gain an insight into the lived experiences of the people in their care as prisoners, and to improve the confidence of prison officers and prison staff to create the conditions and provide the relational experiences that can enable change to take place. To set the challenge – how can we better work together to prevent storing up problems for the future? That means less victims, less public cost, and healthier communities.
