ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews research into the intended and unintended impacts of containment and surveillance policies for sex offenders and outlines the dilemma between human rights and rehabilitative approaches on the one hand, and coercive control systems on the other. The role and effectiveness of community-based treatment and how such treatment efforts sit alongside monitoring and supervision programmes is examined. A case study of a community-based private practice sex offender programme is introduced and used to tease out the structural, personal and professional demands therapists meet, including inter-professional and interagency communication, and legal and professional accountabilities.
