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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on October 23, 2007
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azm051 (2007)
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Consumed With Sex: The Treatment of Sex Offenders in Risk Society

Dany Lacombe*

* PhD, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada; lacombe{at}sfu.ca


  Abstract

This ethnography of a prison treatment programme for sex offenders examines the meaning of rehabilitation in the context of the ‘new penology’. As it explores how cognitive–behaviourism structures treatment, it uncovers a therapeutics grounded in risk that actively constructs the identity of the sex offender. It shows how the management of risk relies on techniques of introspection and self-discipline—a patient's internalization of his crime cycle and relapse prevention plan—that target primarily sexual fantasies. These self-policing techniques radically transform the sex offender into a species entirely consumed by sex.


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