Mortification and Mythology: Challenges in the Reintegration of People with Sexual Offence Convictions

Perrin, C and McGowan, W ORCID: 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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV7231 Criminal Justice Administrations
Divisions:	Justice Studies (from Sep 19)
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Date of acceptance:	24 June 2025
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2025 13:18
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2026 10:43
DOI or ID number:	10.1007/978-3-032-06034-1_1
Editors:	Blagden, N, Winder, B, Hocken, K, Lievesley, R, Harper, C, Swaby, H and Banyard, P
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26649

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