Caspar Walsh on Sex Offender Writing Workshops

Caspar Walsh has used his semi-regular colunmn with the Guardian newspaper to inform us that since his book was published, his writing workshops in prison have now extended to sex offenders, sharing some of his own experience along the way. His view is interesting, though The Guardian has done the disservice of not allowing comments on the article unless you write or email directly. Walsh also, perhaps necessarily, glosses over the view that some offenders will not care about their crimes should they not believe they are doing wrong – but that would lower the chance of their attending Walsh’s class in the first place.

Read it here and make up your own mind.

– CBG

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