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The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence looks at how criminal justice and popular culture intersect in true crime documentaries about wrongful conviction, and what they tell us about how truth and innocence are constructed across media"--

Provides the reader with an in-depth view of six sex offenders, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts. The book explores how these individuals construct their sense of self. Diana Rickard provides a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between public policy and lived experience.

The 1990s witnessed a flurry of legislative initiatives designed to control a population of sex offenders (child abusers) widely reviled as sick, evil, and incurable. In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six such men, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts.