Theoretical issues in the explanation and intervention of offending behavior have been well-documented. We suggest that these issues are particularly prevalent in the way that emotion is targeted through dominant approaches to correctional explanation and practice. These approaches typically target specific emotional states which are judged to be ‘offence-relevant’, assume that emotional states act as an impediment to planned behavior, and prescribe primarily response-focused emotion regulation strategies as intervention. We suggest that a practice framework situated in the enactive view of human functioning could be a useful alternative perspective. The enactive perspective suggests that emotions are evaluative embodied desires, which serve to motivate adaptive action at physiological, social, or cultural levels. Implications of an enactive framework are discussed.

解释和干预冒犯行为的理论问题已被充分记录。我们认为这些问题在通过主要的矫正解释和实践方法以情绪为目标的方式中尤为普遍。这些方法通常针对被判断为“与犯罪相关”的特定情绪状态，假设情绪状态是计划行为的障碍，并主要规定以反应为中心的情绪调节策略作为干预。我们建议，位于人类功能的生成视图中的实践框架可能是一个有用的替代视角。生成的观点表明，情绪是评价性的具体欲望，它有助于激发生理、社会或文化层面的适应性行动。