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Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control / Diana Rickard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Issues in Crime and SocietyPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813578293
  • 9780813578323
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV6592 .R53 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Toward a Sociology of Sexual Offense -- Chapter 2. Constructing the Offense -- Chapter 3. Community Bonds -- Chapter 4. Severed Bonds -- Chapter 5. Strategies to Reestablish Social Bonds -- Chapter 6. Personal Stories and Public Policy -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six sex offenders, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts. The book explores how these individuals construct their sense of self. By placing their stories within the context of the current culture of mass incarceration and zero-tolerance, Rickard provides a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between public policy and lived experience.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780813578323

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Toward a Sociology of Sexual Offense -- Chapter 2. Constructing the Offense -- Chapter 3. Community Bonds -- Chapter 4. Severed Bonds -- Chapter 5. Strategies to Reestablish Social Bonds -- Chapter 6. Personal Stories and Public Policy -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

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In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six sex offenders, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts. The book explores how these individuals construct their sense of self. By placing their stories within the context of the current culture of mass incarceration and zero-tolerance, Rickard provides a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between public policy and lived experience.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)