Sexual Crime and Community Reintegration

This book captures the experience of transitioning from prison to the community, the tensions between risk management, public protection and enabling flourishing in those that have been released from prison. It explores what is required for successful community re-entry for men with sexual convictions, examines barriers as men (re)integrate and the ways in which men can be assisted with desistance. Combining empirical chapters, theoretical reviews, service-user voices and a consideration of the latest approach to community reintegration, this book will be relevant to psychologists, criminologists, social workers, practitioners and students. It highlights experiences of transition from prison to the community, the barriers and challenges to (re)integration, but also how we can move forward, how we can help men live meaningful pro-social lives and in doing so fulfil the goal of reducing sexual (re) victimisation.

Chapter 1: Mortification and Mythology: Challenges in the Reintegration of People with Sexual Offence Convictions. - Chapter 2: Examining the tensions between policing people convicted of sexual offending and promoting the desistance process. - Chapter 3: Negotiating identity as a `sex offender on release from prison and the negative impact of restrictions. - Chapter 4: Navigating life with a sexual conviction: `Anticipatory disclosure and the impact of living in a perpetual biopsychological state of fight or flight. - Chapter 5: The transition from prison to the community for people with sexual convictions: Do we want them to succeed or fail. - Chapter 6: Life After Release and the Impact of Community Support - Service User Speaks. - Chapter 7 Sledgehammer cracking the nut The experience of licence conditions and impact on community reintegration. - Chapter 8: Exploring Trauma-Informed Care in a High-Intensity Programme.