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Social control of sex offenders : a cultural history / by D. Richard Laws.

Laws, D. Richard, author.
2016
HV6001-HV7220.5
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Title
Social control of sex offenders : a cultural history / by D. Richard Laws.
Author
Laws, D. Richard, author.
ISBN
9781137391261
113739126X
9781137391254
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39126-1
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : online resource
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-39126-1 doi
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HV6001-HV7220.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
364
Summary
This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed. A large array of procedures are used in the attempt to control the difficult population of sex offenders, including: imprisonment, institutional and community treatment, community monitoring by probation and parole, electronic monitoring, registration as a sex offender, community notification of an offender status, strict limits on behavioral movement in the community, and residence restrictions. However, these constraints on behavior are almost completely the result of public outrage regarding sensational sex crimes, overreaction of media coverage that produce inaccurate statements of potential community risk, and the efforts of the legal profession and politicians to quell this anger and foreboding by enacting legislation that supposedly confronts the risk. This book demonstrates that we have constructed a massive edifice of community control that is socially and politically driven and which has largely failed to contain sex crime. D. Richard Laws received his PhD from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, USA, in 1969. He has held professional positions in California, Florida, and two Canadian provinces. He is a past president of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He has published eight books and numerous articles on research and treatment. Currently, he is an honorary professor at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Moral Panic: Threat to the Social Order
Chapter 3. Early Historical Treatment of Social Deviance
Chapter 4. The Medicalization of Deviance: Sex Offender as Mental Patient
Chapter 5. The Sexual Psychopath/Predator Laws: Legal Construction of Deviance
Chapter 6. Assessment of Risk to Reoffend: Historical Background
Chapter 7. Assessment of Risk to Reoffend: Actuarial Assessment vs Risk Formulation
Chapter 8. Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification
Chapter 9. Community Restrictions on Sex Offender Behavior
Chapter 10. The International Picture of Social Control
Chapter 11. Psychological Treatment: Risk Reducer or Life Enhancer?- Chapter 12. Conclusions and Future Outlook.

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