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Call for women in intimate relationships with sex offenders

This was posted to SOSEN forums. I am writing to request your cooperation with a research project I am pursuing, and which is described in this letter. My name is Lisa Anne Zilney, Ph.D. and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. I am conducting a study of the experiences and coping mechanisms of the women who are involved in intimate relationships with registered sexual offenders. Like the offender himself, these women face a variety of challenges in responding to how the criminal justice system and society treats the sexual offender and those who associate closely with him once he is released from incarceration. These women are unique in that they provide one of the few sources of support for sexual offender reintegration into the community, but they are also subject to much of the same labeling, and if they reside with the offender are subject to criminal justice sanctions, such as residency restrictions, as well...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 27, 2011 (boomark / email).