This chapter is fundamentally about the challenge of reintegrating people with sexual offence convictions (PwSOC) especially, though not exclusively, following periods of incarceration. Specifically, it explores a series of processes, both psychological and social, which present persistent barriers to reintegration efforts. In doing so, the chapter is divided into four substantive subsections. The first provides some important context concerning the societal tendency, justified or not, to attribute something of a ‘special status’ to sexual offence convictions. The two sections following this are intended to act as heuristic devices by cataloguing predominantly psychological processes of ‘mortification and degradation’, on the one hand, and predominantly social and cultural processes of ‘mythologising’, on the other.