Society And Sex Offenders

Author : Christina Mancini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Offenses against the person
ISBN : 1611637694

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Sex Crime, Offenders, and Society by Christina Mancini Pdf

"What "works" in preventing sex crime? How can policymakers respond to threats of sexual victimization in a manner that is effective, equitable, and sustainable? The second edition of Sex Crime, Offenders, and Society seeks to provide a knowledge base for addressing these questions. Based on feedback from reviewers and readers, the new edition retains the same structure as the first, examining three critical dimensions: the nature and extent of sex offending and explanations, societal responses, and sex crime policy and reform. It now includes updated statistics and references to influential scholarship throughout, a new chapter exploring sex crime in post-secondary institutions, and a concluding chapter that focuses on innovative policy and reform into the future"--

Author : Lawrence Ray Mullen
Publisher : Emerald Ink Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000060915158

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Society and Sex Offenders by Lawrence Ray Mullen Pdf

Based on the author's work in counselling of all kinds of sex offenders in a major American state's prison system, this text covers subjects such as: what is a sexual offence? Can offenders be treated? Are all offences equally bad? How does someone become a sexual offender? What happens to convicted offenders? Are the offenders dangerous to myself or children? What does research say about re-offences? And should sexual offenders be kept in jail or released into society?

Author : Amanda Matravers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134029143

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Sex Offenders in the Community by Amanda Matravers Pdf

This book explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and students to develop an informed position on this complex and increasingly controversial issue. Although the focus is primarily upon the UK context, contributions from North America (USA and Canada) provide an important comparative perspective.

Author : Terry Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317698104

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Sex Crime by Terry Thomas Pdf

Sex Crime, Third edition offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to sex crime, written by an expert in the field. The third edition has been fully expanded and updated to include further coverage of a range of critical topics, including child sexual exploitation, child pornography, female sex offenders, treatment approaches such as the ‘Good Lives Model’ and the European Convention on Human Rights. Delving into and beyond the news headlines about sexual crimes that seem to appear on our screens and in our newspapers almost every day, this third edition draws on a range of high profile case studies, such as Vanessa George, Stuart Hall, Jimmy Savile and Operation Yewtree and also offers a review of all relevant legislation. This new edition also includes an analysis of possible causes of sex offending, as well as public and professional responses to sex crime. Including an examination of the policing of sexual crime; the prosecution of the accused; the sentencing and punishment of sexual offenders; and ‘public protection’ measures, this new edition covers all of the key aspects of sex crime and how it is dealt with. Wide-ranging and authoritative, Sex Crime, Third edition presents a complex area in a straightforward and understandable manner. Thomas guides the reader through the range of policies and law which have accumulated over the years, making this essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of sex crime, sexual violence and the treatment of sex offenders. It will also be of great interest to criminal justice practitioners.

Author : Monica Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479836499

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The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma by Monica Williams Pdf

"When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us believe that vigilantes across the country lie in wait for predators who move into their neighborhoods, responses to sex offenders more often involve collective campaigns that direct outrage toward political and criminal justice systems. No community wants a sex offender in its midst, but instead of vigilantism, [the author] argues, citizens often leverage moral, political, and/or legal authority to keep these offenders out of local neighborhoods. Her book, the culmination of four years of research, 70 in-depth interviews, participant observations, and studies of numerous media sources, reveals the origins and characteristics of community responses to sexually violent predators (SVP) in the U.S. Specifically, [this book] examines the placement process for released SVPs in California and the communities’ responses to those placements. Taking the reader into the center of these related issues, [the author] provokes debate on the role of communities in the execution of criminal justice policies, while also addressing the responsibility of government institutions to both groups of citizens."--

Author : David S. Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Sex crimes
ISBN : 1884444822

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Building Motivation for Change in Sexual Offenders by David S. Prescott Pdf

Author : Robert A. Prentky,Howard E. Barbaree,Eric S. Janus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136016646

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Sexual Predators by Robert A. Prentky,Howard E. Barbaree,Eric S. Janus Pdf

Convicted sex offenders released from custody at the end of their criminal sentences pose a risk for re-offense. In many US states, Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) laws have been enacted that allow for the post-prison preventive detention of high risk sex offenders. SVP laws require the courts to make dispositions that protect the public from harm while at the same time respecting the civil rights of the offender. This book describes these SVP laws, their constitutionality, and aspects of their operation. Courts hear expert risk testimony based heavily on the results of actuarial risk assessment. Problems associated with this testimony include the lack of a theory of recidivism risk, bias due to human decision-making, and the insularity of scholarship and practice along developmental lines. The authors propose changes in legal standards, as well as a unified developmental model that treats sexual violence as an "evolving" condition, with roots traceable to childhood and paths that extend into adolescence and adulthood.

Author : D. Richard Laws
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137391261

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Social Control of Sex Offenders by D. Richard Laws Pdf

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’s 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.

Author : Diana Rickard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813578316

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Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control by Diana Rickard Pdf

The 1990s witnessed a flurry of legislative initiatives—most notably, “Megan’s Law”—designed to control a population of sex offenders (child abusers) widely reviled as sick, evil, and incurable. In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six such men, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts. The six men discussed in the book are typical convicted sex offenders—neither serial pedophiles nor individuals convicted of the type of brutal act that looms large in public perceptions about sex crimes. Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control explores how these individuals, who have been cast as social pariahs, construct their sense of self. How does being labeled in this way and controlled by measures such as Megan’s Law affect one’s identity and sense of social being? Unlike traditional criminological and psychological studies of this population, this book frames their experiences in concepts of both deviance and identity, asking how men so highly stigmatized cope with the most extreme form of social marginality. Placing their stories within the context of the current culture of mass incarceration and zero-tolerance, Rickard provides a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between public policy and lived experience, as well as an understanding of the social challenges faced by this population, whose re-integration into society is far from simple or assured. Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control makes a significant contribution to our understanding of sex offenders, offering a unique window into how individuals make meaning out of their experiences and present a viable—not monstrous—social self to themselves and others.

Author : Amanda Matravers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134029211

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Sex Offenders in the Community by Amanda Matravers Pdf

This book explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and students to develop an informed position on this complex and increasingly controversial issue. Although the focus is primarily upon the UK context, contributions from North America (USA and Canada) provide an important comparative perspective.

Author : Karen Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317438557

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Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community by Karen Harrison Pdf

This book explores the issues surrounding sex offenders, evaluating the measures in use or being considered, including drug treatment, MAPPA, the use of the Sex Offender Register, restorative justice techniques, and treatment programmes.

Author : Georgia Cumming,Maureen Buell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047552990

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Supervision of the Sex Offender by Georgia Cumming,Maureen Buell Pdf

Author : Terry Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136715341

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The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders by Terry Thomas Pdf

This book seeks to provide the first serious and detailed narrative of the conception and implementation of the sex offender registers. It seeks to do so in a clear and easy to follow text that will be both informed and critical. It will also serve as a resource book for those wanting to make further study of the process of registration and monitoring.

Author : John W. Morin,Jill S. Levenson
Publisher : Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1885473923

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The Road to Freedom by John W. Morin,Jill S. Levenson Pdf

A workbook for sex offenders incorporating the latest developments in relapse prevention training. It features the four-path R-P model and invites offenders, in an easy-to-read style, to examine their own approach to offending, addressing the high risk factors that trigger and maintain that approach. This book looks beyond the cognitive and behavioral linchpins of offending to the powerful emotional needs that energize deviant sex. The authors believe that only by learning to meet these needs in healthy ways can offenders attain the positive reinforcements that lead to maintaining important lifestyle changes. Newly-added sections address the role of polygraphy in sex offender treatment and the role of the Internet in sexual compulsivity.

Author : Jo Brayford,Francis Cowe,John Deering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136292194

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Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control? by Jo Brayford,Francis Cowe,John Deering Pdf

Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending in the UK. This book looks at the growth of work with sex offenders, questioning assumptions about the range and types of such offenders and what effective responses to these might be. Divided into four sections, this book sets out the growth of a broad legislative context and the emergence of child sexual offenders in criminal justice policy and practice. It goes on to consider a range of offences and victim typologies arguing that work with offenders and victims is complex and can provide a rich source of theoretical and practical knowledge that should be utilised more fully by both policy makers and practitioners. It includes work on female sex offenders, electronic monitoring and animal abuse as well as exploring interventions with sex offenders in three different contexts; prisons, communities and hostels. Bringing together academic, practice and policy experts, the book argues that a clear but complex theoretical and policy approach is required if the risk of re- offending and further victimisation is to be reduced. Ultimately, this book questions whether it makes sense to locate responsibility for responding to sexual offending solely within the criminal justice domain.