"The Sleeping Army": Necropolitics and the Collateral Consequences of Being a Sex Offender. Issue 9 (2nd September 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Higgins, Ethan M.; Rolfe, Shawn M.
• Is Part Of: Deviant behavior. Volume 38:Issue 9(2017)
• Page Start: 975
• Page End: 990
• Publication Date: 2017-09-02
• Subjects: Deviant behavior -- Periodicals; 302.54205
• DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2016.1229947
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-9625

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The current study examines responses from 188 registered sex offenders to assess the impact of collateral consequences and situate such experiences within a framework of necropolitics. Two research questions are addressed: How can the experience of collateral consequences be explained through necropolitics; and, do sex offenders use necropolitics in resistive efforts? Results demonstrate that exclusion from social and political institutions results in a "death in life" for sex offenders. Last, this article discusses an alternative lens for conceptualizing policy initiatives towards sex offenders by juxtaposing Luckmann's "life-worlds" with Mbembe's "death worlds."