Reviews : Tackling Denial in Sex Offenders Bryan Gocke Social Work Monographs, 1991, UEA, £4.50 pbk
| Published date | 01 September 1991 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059103800310 |
| Date | 01 September 1991 |
| Author | Michael Sheath |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
REVIEWS
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Tackling Denial in Sex
mitigation-fed rewards and honesty-fed
Offenders
punishments does little to help.
The main weakness of Gocke’s
Bryan Gocke
prescriptions for dealing with in-
Social Work
Monographs, 1991, UEA,
dividual manifestations of denial is that
£4.50 pbk
they rest entirely upon confrontative
techniques which have to be ’threaten-
Articles, dissertations, books and
ing and painful’ when an earlier con-
monographs which contain the words
cern had been that offenders’
’tackle’, ’denial’ and ’sex offender’ in
threatening and painful experiences at
the title are rather thick on
the ground
the hands of other prisoners are
these days, but this need not divert us
deeemed counterproductive. The
from Bryan Gocke’s imaginative efforts.
strength of Gocke’s argument lies in his
Gocke’s concerns are with a socie-
insistence on our walldng the tightrope
ty based upon patriarchy which throws
between collusion and scapegoating; if
up sex offenders and then, with due
we
are honest, we have to admit to the
hypocrisy, celebrates their status as
temptation to lean one way or the
monsters. It is the same process, but
other.
more subtle, as the Sun’s displays of
naked women
on
Michael Sheath
page 3 and rape trials
on
Probation
page 2.
Officer, Worcester
The inadequacies of traditional
theories of deviant sexual interest are
pointed out;
family therapy,
Bizarre Behaviours
behaviourist and psychotheraputic ex-
Herschel Prins
planations come in for some swift and
ritual theory abuse. More...
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