Less Than Utopian: Sex Offender Treatment in a Milieu of Power Struggles, Status Positioning, And Inmate Manipulation in State Correctional Institutions

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Vaughn ◽  
Allen D. Sapp
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offender ◽  
Offender Treatment ◽  
Sex Offender Treatment ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Power Struggles

The Role of Preparatory Programming in Increasing the Effectiveness of a Sex Offender Treatment Intervention

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Tanya Renn ◽  
Christopher Veeh ◽  
Melissa D. Grady ◽  
David Edwards ◽  
Carrie Pettus-Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offender ◽  
Offender Treatment ◽  
Treatment Intervention ◽  
Sex Offender Treatment

scholarly journals “Mr S, you do have sexual fantasies?” The Parole Hearing and Treatment of a Sex Offender at the Turn of the 21st Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Offender Treatment ◽  
Sex Offender Treatment ◽  
Sexual Fantasies ◽  
Parole Board ◽  
Clear Sign ◽  
Prevention Plan

How does the Parole Board decide a sex offender is rehabilitated and can be released into the community? This case study of a parole hearing reveals the significance the Parole Board gives to a sex offender’s management of his arousal as a clear sign of his rehabilitation. To explain the Board’s preoccupation with a sex offender’s sexual fantasies and arousal, I draw on a prison ethnography of a sex offender treatment program. Rehabilitation as risk management relies on the development of a crime cycle and relapse prevention plan designed to grasp the connection between fantasies, arousal and offending. I argue the parole hearing and treatment program exist in a symbiotic relationship that fabricates the sex offender into a species larger than life, one at risk of offending all the time. Key words: rehabilitation, sex offenders, parole, sexual fantasies, ethnography, prison.

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