Consumed with sex: The treatment of sex offender in risk society
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This ethnography of a prison treatment programme for sex offenders examines the meaning of reha-bilitation 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. On 16 April 2006, Stephen Marshall — a Canadian in his early twenties — traveled to Maine, USA, ostensibly to visit his father for Easter. Using his father’s handgun, he instead murdered two sex offenders whose names and addresses he had found on Maine’s online sex offender registry. Marshall’s motivations are unknown because he shot himself shortly after the murders. Whether he understood the difference between the offences of the two men he shot is also unknown, but a difference there was. Fifty-seven-year-old Joseph Gray had been convicted of sexually assaulting a child, whereas 24-year-old William Elliot had been convicted of statutory rape. The sex offender regis-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".