Abstract While education has been demonstrated to promote desistance, a person with a sex offense conviction faces numerous obstacles when pursuing a postsecondary education. In the present study, we investigated perceptions of university administrators toward applicants convicted of sexual offenses. Responses were collected through an online survey disseminated to national higher education administrator organizations. This is the first study to explore administrative perceptions of policies regarding applicants with a history of sexual offending and provides data on the restrictions faced by people with a sex offense conviction when applying to and attending institutes of higher education.

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教育的障碍：高等教育中有性犯罪历史的个人的政策和看法

摘要尽管教育已被证明可以促进人们的抵抗运动，但对性犯罪定罪的人在接受专上教育时会面临许多障碍。在本研究中，我们调查了大学管理者对被定罪为性犯罪的申请人的看法。答复是通过在线调查收集的，并分发给了国家高等教育管理机构。这是第一项研究，探讨了对具有性犯罪史的申请人的行政管理政策看法，并提供了有关被性犯罪定罪者在申请和就读高等教育机构时面临的限制的数据。