Managing Unacceptable Risk: Sex Offenders, Community Response, and Social Policy in the United States and Canada
This article compares the community protection-risk management model for the control of sex offenders with the clinical and justice models that preceded it and with a restorative justice alternative based on the principle of community reintegration. The author discusses how this community protection...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2002
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International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2002, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 483-511 |
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| Summary: | This article compares the community protection-risk management model for the control of sex offenders with the clinical and justice models that preceded it and with a restorative justice alternative based on the principle of community reintegration. The author discusses how this community protection-risk management model reflects the new penology as well as the fusion of panopticism and synopticism. The author also discusses the model's actual and potential social costs. He concludes with a brief look at circles of support and accountability. This Canadian approach involves setting up support circles of volunteers who enter into a covenant with persons designated as high-risk sex offenders to help them both to integrate into the community and to reduce the likelihood that they will reoffend |
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| ISSN: | 0306-624X |