Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

John Deering, Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe

• Introduction, Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, and John Deering, Section 1 – Setting the Scene, 1. Legislation and Sex Offending, Nigel Stone, 2. The Rise of Work with Sex Offenders, Maurice Vanstone, 3. Media Influences on Public Perceptions of Sex Offenders, Jo Brayford and John Deering, Section 2 – Types of Offences / Victims, 4. Sexual Offenders’ Construction of Identities, Kirsty Hudson, 5. Female Sex Offenders: The Betrayal of Trust, Jo Brayford and Susan Roberts, 6. Sexual Abuse and Learning Difficulties, Michelle Culwick, 7. Sexual Re-victimization, Nadia Wager, 8. Animal Abuse and Sexual Offending, Jenny Maher and Harriet Pierpoint, 9. Sexual Offending and the Internet, Majid Yar, Section 3 – Settings, 10. Hostels and Sex Offenders, Francis Cowe and Carla Reeves, 11. Prison and Sex Offender Interventions, Kate Saward and Cerys Miles, 12. Circles of Support, Chris Wilson and Andrew Bates, 13. Electronic control and surveillance of offenders, Mike Nellis, Section 4 – Skills/Policy, 14. MAPPA: The Management of Sex Offenders, Hazel Kemshall and Jason Wood, 15. PO Enforcement Practice with Sex Offenders, Pamela Ugwudike, 16. Emotional Literacy in Working with Sex Offenders, Charlotte Knight, 17. Conclusion, Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, and John Deering

"… the desire to secure public protection has given rise to a raft of reactionary, restrictive, exclusionary and controlling approaches to contain risk which ultimately inhibit access to integrative opportunities, at the expense of investigating the dynamics of change, engaging and educating the public and critically exploring how communities and individuals might both protect themselves and support offenders’ rehabilitation and reintegration. This edited collection represents an important departure from this trend by revealing the sheer heterogeneity among this population and their behaviours, and in illuminating new lines of enquiry that have received comparatively less attention in the past." — Beth Weaver, Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, in Probation Journal"All in all, Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control is skillfully organized, scrupulously researched, remarkably comprehensive, and palatably verbose. It appropriately fills information gaps other texts on sexually-based offenses may purposefully overlook. Indeed, Brayford, Cowe, and Deering have been undeniably successful at constructing “more than just a series of edited collections” (p. 3), and this text will surely prove useful in a variety of contexts and to a variety of audiences."— Amber L. Morczek, PhD Candidate, Washington State University, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology