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

关于性犯罪者立法对社区和犯罪者的影响知之甚少。 这项研究开始填补这一空白，通过一个街头一级的社区和性犯罪者从监狱释放后生活的情况人种志。共同首席研究员将在社区进行为期九个月的深入实地研究，包括观察和非结构化访谈。该项目将通过同时检查社区适应性犯罪者的存在，以及研究前罪犯的重返社会经历，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返社会，生活在社会边缘的个人的经验，对性犯罪者的耻辱，以及关于福利和刑事司法系统的作用的话语。该项目的更广泛的影响是提高政府政策和其他力量如何影响边缘化人群的知识。该项目将作为一本内容丰富的书以及学术文章和会议报告进行传播。这些产品的教育效益包括作为社会学、刑事司法、公共政策和人种学方法的教学工具。还将向决策者提供这些资料，并可能加强关于刑事司法政策与社会不平等之间的交叉问题的讨论。

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.