CRM 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Scapegoating, Stranger Danger, Involuntary Commitment
24 May 2018
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CRM SOC Day 14 – March 15, 2018
Lecture 14 Societal Reaction to Sex Offenders
Societal Reaction to Sex Offenders
• How would you describe societal reaction to sex offenders?
- Very extreme action, thought to have done the worst thing ever
- Mainly men who are offenders, but women are offending but aren’t recorded and
people who are assaulted by women don’t want to come out
- General disgust
- Exiled or removed from society, people don’t want to hang around them
- What they were identified with before, they are seen different and now their master
status is a rapist
- People around them are also affected
• Why is that?
- What is it about sexual offending that garners such reactions?
Societal Reaction to Sex Offenders (2)
• Victims are considered the most vulnerable population (women and children)
- Who does this leave out?
• Threaten our sense of safety in the world
- This can challenge our sense of safety within the community
• Extremity of consequences
- Life-long emotional trauma
- Physical consequences
Societal Reaction to Sex Offenders (3)
• The ultimate scapegoat
- The epitome of the concept
- By scapegoating we can encourage group consensus and solidarity
• Encourages consensus & group solidarity
- The idea that they all believe that the person is unredeemable
- It becomes their master status
Consequences of Sex Offender Label?
• Master status
• Rejected by family
• Despised even by other prisoners / offenders
• Deserving of whatever comes their way (i.e. being physically harmed or killed in prison)
• Considered lowest of the low
• There is a stigma that is attached to an offender, and now people will always think that
you will reoffend
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Document Summary
Crm soc day 14 march 15, 2018. Very extreme action, thought to have done the worst thing ever. Mainly men who are offenders, but women are offending but aren"t recorded and people who are assaulted by women don"t want to come out. Exiled or removed from society, people don"t want to hang around them. What they were identified with before, they are seen different and now their master status is a rapist. Societal reaction to sex offenders (2: victims are considered the most vulnerable population (women and children) Who does this leave out: threaten our sense of safety in the world. This can challenge our sense of safety within the community: extremity of consequences. Societal reaction to sex offenders (3: the ultimate scapegoat. By scapegoating we can encourage group consensus and solidarity: encourages consensus & group solidarity. The idea that they all believe that the person is unredeemable. They are identified publically but excluded from the community.
