Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections critically assesses of what is meant by the term 'sex offender', and acknowledges that such meanings are socially constructed, situated, and contingent. The book explores the person, crime, penal space, sexual orientation, and the community experiences of labeled sex offenders.

Rose Ricciardelli is Associate Professor and the Coordinator for Criminology in the Department of Sociology, Memorial University, Canada. Her research interests include risk, vulnerabilities, masculinities, prison culture, desistance, and lived experiences of prisoners, correctional officers, and police officers.

Dale C. Spencer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies and the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University, Canada. His research interests include masculinities, affect, emotions and the body, policing, violence, and Critical Victimology.

1. Introduction.....

2. The Chimeric Sex Offender....

3. Biopolitics, 'Vulnerability' and Sex Offenders...

4. Masculinities, Stigma and Failure....

5. Precarity, Exposure, and Violence...

6. Stigma, Sex Offenders, and Correctional Staff...

7. Sex Offenders and the Cultural Politics of Emotions in Prison Environments...

8. Conclusion...

Appendix: Corrections, Qualitative Methods, and Abductive analysis

References

Index