Victim Rhetoric among Sex Offenders: A Case Study of the Former Israeli President

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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Contemporary Dilemmas in Personality Assessment Illustrated in a Diagnostic Case Study

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1977.44.3.967 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 967-973 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert S. Greene

Keyword(s):

Sex Offenders ◽

Systematic Study ◽

Personality Assessment ◽

Inventory Data ◽

Large Samples ◽

Hand Test ◽

Measurement And Evaluation ◽

Psychological Inventory ◽

Study Format

Hand Test and California Psychological Inventory data produced by two nonviolent sex offenders are presented in case study format. Marked similarities in personality of these subjects are noted and discussed in relation to difficulties which plague the field of measurement and evaluation. Social relevancy is noted and the need for systematic study of large samples is emphasized.

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Policing paedophilia: Assembling bodies, spaces and things

Crime Media Culture An International Journal ◽

10.1177/1741659015623598 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 345-365 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Elaine Campbell

Keyword(s):

Sex Offenders ◽

Documentary Film ◽

Moral Authority ◽

Entry Point ◽

Citizen Involvement ◽

Cultural Relations ◽

Public Attention ◽

Mixed Economy ◽

The Us

In recent years, digital vigilantism, often dubbed ‘paedophile hunting’, has grabbed media headlines in the US, UK and Europe. Though this novel style of policing carries no legal or moral authority, it is nonetheless ‘taking hold’ within a pluralised policing landscape where its effectiveness at apprehending child sex offenders is capturing public attention. While the emergence of digital vigilantism raises normative questions of where the boundaries of citizen involvement in policing affairs might be drawn, this paper is concerned with firstly, how this kind of citizen-led policing initiative comes into being; secondly, how it emerges as an identifiable policing form; and thirdly, how it acquires leverage and makes its presence felt within a mixed economy of (authorised) policing actors, sites and technologies. The paper sets out a detailed case study of a ‘paedophile hunter’ in action, read through a provocative documentary film, first broadcast on mainstream UK television in October 2014. This lays the groundwork for thinking through the cultural relations of digital vigilantism, and how this proliferating mode of policing practice is engendered and mobilised through affective connectivities, performative political imaginaries and culturally-mediated dialogical praxis. In seeking an entry point for theorising emergent policing forms and their connectedness to other policing bodies, spaces and things, the paper concludes with a thumbnail sketch of assemblage thinking.

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Applied Psychophysiology and Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Sex Offenders1

Biofeedback ◽

10.5298/1081-5937-38.2.04 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 148-154 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John A Corson

Keyword(s):

Sex Offenders ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Medical Center ◽

Veterans Administration ◽

Behavioral Strategies ◽

Illegal Behavior ◽

Train Of Thought ◽

Cognitive And Behavioral Therapy ◽

Positive Results

Abstract This article presents an application of applied psychophysiological and cognitive and behavioral strategies to the treatment of sex offenders. The participants were 21 sex offenders treated as outpatients at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont. A repeated-case-study format was used. Because hyperventilation destabilizes the autonomic nervous system (disrupting and/or preventing erection and other aspects of male sexual arousal) and dramatically changes brain function (degrading train of thought and shifting neuroendocrine function), clients were taught to hyperventilate in response to thoughts and images of the targets of their illegal behavior. Psychophysiological indices included skin conductance and penile plethysmograph. Participants were treated in six individual sessions, and most have been followed up for more than 2 years. Results show that with motivated clients, this procedure produces convincing, positive results.

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Social Housing as Crime Control: An Examination of the Role of Housing Management in Policing Sex Offenders

Social & Legal Studies ◽

10.1177/a020305 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 435-457 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

David Cowan ◽

Christina Pantazis ◽

Rose Gilroy

Keyword(s):

Sex Offenders ◽

Social Housing ◽

Crime Control ◽

Case Study Research ◽

Study Research ◽

Housing Management

This article considers the ways in which social housing has in recent years become inextricably linked with the process of crime control. Drawing on case study research into the rehousing of sex offenders, the authors provide evidence illustrating why and how social housing management has become increasingly drawn into the fold of crime control. The article then highlights some serious but often neglected concerns stemming from the adoption by social housing management of more crime control responsibilities. Whilst protection of individuals and communities should always remain paramount, the article concludes with a discussion about the implications of what these processes may mean for social housing.

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Evaluating Restorative Justice Circles of Support and Accountability: Can Social Support Overcome Structural Barriers?

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ◽

10.1177/0306624x16652627 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 739-758 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Miriam Northcutt Bohmert ◽

Grant Duwe ◽

Natalie Kroovand Hipple

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Sex Offenders ◽

Restorative Justice ◽

Sex Offender ◽

Structural Barriers ◽

Offender Reentry ◽

Instrumental Social Support ◽

Reducing Recidivism ◽

Depth Interviews

In a climate in which stigmatic shaming is increasing for sex offenders as they leave prison, restorative justice practices have emerged as a promising approach to sex offender reentry success and have been shown to reduce recidivism. Criminologists and restorative justice advocates believe that providing ex-offenders with social support that they may not otherwise have is crucial to reducing recidivism. This case study describes the expressive and instrumental social support required and received, and its relationship to key outcomes, by sex offenders who participated in Circles of Support and Accountability (COSAs), a restorative justice, reentry program in Minnesota. In-depth interviews with re-entering sex offenders and program volunteers revealed that 75% of offenders reported weak to moderate levels of social support leaving prison, 70% reported receiving instrumental support in COSAs, and 100% reported receiving expressive support. Findings inform work on social support, structural barriers, and restorative justice programming during sex offender reentry.

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