Sexual Predators, Extended Supervision, and Preventive Social Control: Risk Management Under the Spotlight(1)

Warren J Brookbanks(2)

Introduction
In 2004 New Zealand introduced legislation aimed at managing the long term risks posed by child sex offenders in the community. In this regard it was responding to widespread public apprehension about the special dangers posed by this group of offenders, the new “monsters” in our demonology of society’s most despised members.(3) The vehicle for achieving this in New Zealand is a post-sentence supervision order known as “extended supervision”, which enables the Department of Corrections to monitor medium-high and high-risk child sex offenders for up to ten years following release from prison.

Footnotes:
(1) An earlier version of this paper was delivered by Professor Brookbanks at the ‘Comparative Mental Health Law Seminar’ hosted by the Law School, Northumbria University in October 2005.
(2) Professor of Law, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
(3) M Perlin, “Symposium: ‘There’s no success like failure/and failure’s no success at all’: Exposing the Pretextuality of Kansas v Hendricks” (1998) 92 Northwestern University law Review 1247.

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