{"id":1740,"date":"2016-08-04T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2016-08-04T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:35:30","slug":"in-the-news-dr-kelly-richards-discussing-cosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/08\/04\/in-the-news-dr-kelly-richards-discussing-cosa\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Dr Kelly Richards Discussing COSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/03\/Kelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-487 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/03\/Kelly.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CJRC researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/richark2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Kelly Richards<\/a> from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently been featured in ABC&#8217;s Lateline program discussing COSA (Circles of Support and Accountability) with child sex offenders.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">COSA&#8217;s premise is simple, but confronting: A group of four to six volunteers form a &#8220;circle&#8221; around the paedophile, who is referred to as the &#8220;core member&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They spend time each week to doing everyday activities together like going out for coffee, doing groceries, applying for jobs, or just chatting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These circles are designed to encourage the sex offenders to have normal, adult relationships and keep them accountable for their actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dr Richards\u00a0says COSA works because it removes the secrecy in which child abuse thrives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;What COSA do is break down that secrecy so the offender is not able to live alone and behave as they please,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;They suddenly have five or six supportive volunteers who are checking in on a daily basis, spending time with the offender, and making sure that they know what the offender is up to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To watch the video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/lateline\/content\/2016\/s4513102.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To\u00a0read the ABC news\u00a0article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-08-03\/cosa-volunteers:-the-people-who-hang-out-with-paedophiles\/7648518\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJRC researcher Dr Kelly Richards from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently been featured in ABC&#8217;s Lateline program discussing COSA (Circles of Support and Accountability) with child sex offenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9719,3],"tags":[11595,11490,9758,9716,15182],"class_list":{"0":"post-1740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-justice-policy-issues","8":"category-news","9":"tag-abcnews","10":"tag-cosa","11":"tag-kellyrichards","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-sexoffenders"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}