| Title: |
Mortification and Mythology: Challenges in the Reintegration of People with Sexual Offence Convictions |
| Authors: |
Perrin, C; McGowan, W |
| Contributors: |
Blagden, N; Winder, B; Hocken, K; Lievesley, R; Harper, C; Swaby, H; Banyard, P |
| Publisher Information: |
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Liverpool John Moores University: LJMU Research Online |
| Subject Terms: |
HV7231 Criminal Justice Administrations |
| Description: |
This chapter is fundamentally about the challenge of reintegrating people with sexual offence convictions (PwSOC) especially, though not exclusively, following periods of incarceration. Specifically, it explores a series of processes, both psychological and social, which present persistent barriers to reintegration efforts. In doing so, the chapter is divided into four substantive subsections. The first provides some important context concerning the societal tendency, justified or not, to attribute something of a ‘special status’ to sexual offence convictions. The two sections following this are intended to act as heuristic devices by cataloguing predominantly psychological processes of ‘mortification and degradation’, on the one hand, and predominantly social and cultural processes of ‘mythologising’, on the other. |
| Document Type: |
book part |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26649/1/Perrin%20%26%20McGowan.%202024.%20Mortification%20and%20Mythology%20PDF.pdf; Perrin, C and McGowan, W ORCID logoorcid:0000-0003-0921-303X (2026) Mortification and Mythology: Challenges in the Reintegration of People with Sexual Offence Convictions. In: Blagden, N, Winder, B, Hocken, K, Lievesley, R, Harper, C, Swaby, H and Banyard, P, (eds.) Sexual Crime & Community Reintegration. Sexual Crime . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 1-18. ISBN 978-3-032-06033-4 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-032-06034-1_1 |
| Availability: |
https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26649/; https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26649/1/Perrin%20%26%20McGowan.%202024.%20Mortification%20and%20Mythology%20PDF.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06034-1_1 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.38198DB1 |
| Database: |
BASE |