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 Time To Work: Managing the Employment of Sex Offenders Under Community Supervision
NCJ Number
              194263

Author(s)
          Eric Seleznow
Date Published

January 2002
Length
              12 pages
Annotation
              This paper discusses critical issues in the management of
sex-offender employment, and it reviews research findings on
offender employment, with attention to the importance of
employment in the sex offender's life.
Abstract
              Structured, full-time employment is a cornerstone of nearly all
community supervision programs for offenders, especially for sex
offenders. Acquiring appropriate employment for sex offenders
presents formidable obstacles, since many employers are reluctant
to hire sex offenders because of the stigma that follows them and
the restrictive special conditions of their supervision.
Community supervision officers must carefully monitor sex
offenders in their work-related activities to ensure they do not
have opportunities to reoffend. Supervision agencies must
determine how to manage sex offenders on the job in a way that
adequately restricts offenders, protects the public, and
simultaneously promotes successful offender reintegration. 
Outreach to employers can identify businesses in the community
that are willing to hire sex offenders and provide supervising
officers with useful information about offender behavior.
Essential components of an intensive program to manage sex
offenders employed in the community are the integration of
supervision strategies with the provision of job search
assistance, a thorough assessment of potential job placements,
case-by-case placement decisions, routine employer
communications, and regular monitoring of offender employment.
The details of these elements of sex-offender employment
supervision are discussed in this paper. 9 resources and 8
references
      
  
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