Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community and Individual Responses to Ex-Offender Reentry

性犯罪者立法对社区和犯罪者的影响知之甚少。这项研究开始通过街头层面的人种志来填补这一空白，该研究对性犯罪者出狱后生活的社区和环境进行了研究。联合首席调查员将在为期九个月的时间里在社区进行深入的实地研究，包括观察和非结构化访谈。这个项目将通过同时考察一个适应性犯罪者存在的社区，以及研究释囚重返社会的经历，为性犯罪者和性犯罪者立法的研究做出贡献。调查结果将揭示性犯罪者重新进入社会、生活在社会边缘的个人的经历、对性犯罪者的污名以及关于福利和刑事司法系统的作用的论述。该项目的更广泛影响是加强对政府政策和其他力量如何影响边缘人群的了解。该项目将作为一本内容丰富的详细书籍以及学术文章和会议报告进行传播。这些产品的教育益处包括将它们用作社会学、刑事司法、公共政策和人种学方法论的教学工具。它们还将提供给政策制定者，并可能加强关于刑事司法政策和社会不平等的交集的讨论。

Little is known about the effects of sex-offender legislation on communities and offenders. This research begins to fill this gap through a street-level ethnography of the communities and circumstances in which sex offenders live following release from prison. The co-principal investigator will conduct in-depth field research in the community over a period of nine months, including observations and unstructured interviews.This project will contribute to research on sex offenders and sex offender legislation by simultaneously examining a community adjusting to the presence of sex offenders, as well as studying ex-offenders' reentry experiences. Findings will shed light on sex-offender reentry, experiences of individuals living on the margins of society, stigmas regarding sex offenders, and discourse about the role of welfare and the criminal justice system.The broader impact of the project is enhanced knowledge of how government policy and other forces affect marginalized populations. This project will be disseminated as a richly detailed book as well as scholarly articles and conference presentations. Educational benefits of these products include their use as teaching tools in sociology, criminal justice, public policy, and ethnographic methodology. They will also be made available to policy makers and may enhance discussion about the intersections of criminal justice policy and social inequality.