Literature Review
Implementing treatment measures to increase the likelihood of successful reintegration into the community is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially for serious offenders (Losel & Schmucker, 2005). Nonetheless, despite the growth of preventive measures, there are evidently negative stigmas towards sex offenders, even within the prison system, as those who commit sexual offences against an adult or a child are most likely to experience victimisation compared to prisoners who have committed other offences (Wolff, et al., 2007). In this report, I will address whether sex offenders can be successfully rehabilitated through the various treatments that are available to them and what the public's attitudes are towards the growing …show more content…
Customarily, newspapers aim to convey a clear and direct message to the public of either a positive or negative temperament from the writer’s perspective. Therefore, I collated a large scope of information as the authors implemented a range of interviews with sex offenders, psychologists and professionals who work with sex offenders, which made my analysis valid as the authors refrained from simply reporting their own opinions, which reduced bias. As shown in table 1, I used four newspaper articles from BBC News, The Guardian and the International Business Times and a report from The Guardian (see Appendix A)
They are reliable and well-known news sources in the United Kingdom, which allowed me to focus on the opinions of people living in Britain. Furthermore, I used contemporary sources from 2011 to 2016 as rehabilitation has become more prevalent in recent years and amplified media coverage of sexual offences may have resulted in changing public attitudes, as previously fewer individuals reported sexual offences to the police (Home Office, 2016), as shown in figure …show more content…
Firstly, I separated each article into manageable paragraphs to make coding the data easier. Subsequently, I printed all five of my chosen documents and I numbered each paragraph so each section could be identified easily when I created the framework. I scrutinised each source and I coded the paragraphs using inductive coding. However, as the articles shared some key themes, I purposely replicated some codes such as ‘treatment’, ‘public attitudes’ and ‘recidivism’ to increase the clarity of my analysis, as illustrated in Appendix B. Once I coded each source I organised my data using framework analysis by creating tables with a central theme and multiple subthemes from the information I collated through coding. Lastly, I arranged my data within these themes by using quotes and the related paragraph number from the documents that represented the subtheme (see Appendix
Implementing treatment measures to increase the likelihood of successful reintegration into the community is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially for serious offenders (Losel & Schmucker, 2005). Nonetheless, despite the growth of preventive measures, there are evidently negative stigmas towards sex offenders, even within the prison system, as those who commit sexual offences against an adult or a child are most likely to experience victimisation compared to prisoners who have committed other offences (Wolff, et al., 2007). In this report, I will address whether sex offenders can be successfully rehabilitated through the various treatments that are available to them and what the public's attitudes are towards the growing …show more content…
Customarily, newspapers aim to convey a clear and direct message to the public of either a positive or negative temperament from the writer’s perspective. Therefore, I collated a large scope of information as the authors implemented a range of interviews with sex offenders, psychologists and professionals who work with sex offenders, which made my analysis valid as the authors refrained from simply reporting their own opinions, which reduced bias. As shown in table 1, I used four newspaper articles from BBC News, The Guardian and the International Business Times and a report from The Guardian (see Appendix A)
They are reliable and well-known news sources in the United Kingdom, which allowed me to focus on the opinions of people living in Britain. Furthermore, I used contemporary sources from 2011 to 2016 as rehabilitation has become more prevalent in recent years and amplified media coverage of sexual offences may have resulted in changing public attitudes, as previously fewer individuals reported sexual offences to the police (Home Office, 2016), as shown in figure …show more content…
Firstly, I separated each article into manageable paragraphs to make coding the data easier. Subsequently, I printed all five of my chosen documents and I numbered each paragraph so each section could be identified easily when I created the framework. I scrutinised each source and I coded the paragraphs using inductive coding. However, as the articles shared some key themes, I purposely replicated some codes such as ‘treatment’, ‘public attitudes’ and ‘recidivism’ to increase the clarity of my analysis, as illustrated in Appendix B. Once I coded each source I organised my data using framework analysis by creating tables with a central theme and multiple subthemes from the information I collated through coding. Lastly, I arranged my data within these themes by using quotes and the related paragraph number from the documents that represented the subtheme (see Appendix