Call for Contributions: Edited Book

Call for Contributions:  Edited Book

Researching People who have offended sexually:  Behind the scenes

Editors:

Danielle Arlanda Harris (Griffith University, Australia)

Anja Emilie Kruse (University of Oslo, Norway)

Kelly Richards (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

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We invite contributions from both emerging and established scholars (employed in academic and other research environments) that explore:

• The broad range of challenges, pitfalls, successes and unexpected events that occur when conducting research on people who have offended sexually
• Challenges and innovations in accessing people who have offended sexually – a hard-to-reach population
• Survivor-scholars’ experiences of researching people who have offended sexually
• The impacts of researchers’ and/or participants’ gendered, racialized, classed and/or other marginalized identities in researching people who have offended sexually
• Challenges and innovations with a range of relevant gatekeepers (e.g. IRBs, funding bodies, government/industry/community research partners)
• The issues that accompany researching undetected or unconvicted people who have offended sexually
• The issues that accompany translating knowledge (especially unpalatable findings) into policy and practice
• The use of emerging technologies to research people who have offended sexually
• The impacts of researching people who have offended sexually (e.g. professional, career, personal, familial, psychological)
• Building rapport with people who have offended sexually
• The strengths and challenges of cross-cultural and/or cross-national research with people who have offended sexually
• Safety concerns (e.g. physical, emotional, psychological)
• Issues of definition and/or measurement
• Experiences of hope, redemption, reform, atonement, restoration etc
• Moral and ethical conundrums
• Epistemological matters, including but not limited to the thorny representation of people who have offended sexually, their actions, and their life stories
• Issues of sample representativeness and generalisability
• The issues that accompany researching treated or untreated people who have offended sexually
• Managing others’ reactions about your research on people who have offended sexually …

…and we welcome other suggestions aligned with the overarching aim of the book!

Timeline (subject to change):

• Abstract deadline – 31 March 2026
• Notification of acceptance[1] – 1 May 2026
• Draft chapters due – 30 September 2026
• Feedback from Editors on draft chapters – 31 December 2026
• Revised chapters due (if required) – 30 March 2027
• Publication – late 2027

For more information and to provide an abstract please see here:

Call for Papers Information