TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Consumed With Sex: The Treatment of Sex Offenders In Risk Society
JO  - British journal of criminology
A1  - Lacombe, D.
SP  - 55
EP  - 74
VL  - 48
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0007-0955
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azm051
ID  - ref1
ER  -