Laura J. Zilney, Lisa Anne Zilney

Perverts and Predators

The Making of Sexual Offending Laws

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Perverts and Predators is the only available work that deals in-depth with the laws against sexual offending and highlights the significant role of the media in shaping sex offender legislation. The authors provide analysis of sexual offending from the unique perspectives of sexology and criminology, maintaining the premise that sex and sexuality are positive and healthy and that the only way to deal with the issue of sexual offending is through sex positive education and counseling.

Produktdetails

• Issues in Crime and Justice
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780742566224
• ISBN-10: 0742566226
• Artikelnr.: 25854163

Autorenporträt

By Laura J. Zilney and Lisa Anne Zilney

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Preface Part I: Historical Perspectives on Sexual Offending
1 The Role of Religion Christianity Judaism 2 The Medical Model The Medical
Model Key figures in Medicine Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders Other Tests for Sexual "Predators" 3 Is There Any Explanation?
Sexological Thoery Feminist Theory Sociological and Criminological Theories
The Usefulness of Theory 4 Historical Sexual Offending Laws Societal
Responses to Sexual Offending Case Study: The Changing Age of Puberty A war
on Sexual Offenders Begins in the 1930s Reform of the 1960s and 1970s The
1980s Part II: The Crime and the Criminals 5 Laws, Laws, and more Laws
Chapter 11 6. Counting the Problem Chapter 12 7. Controlling Offenders
Chapter 13 8. Considering the Victims Part 14 III. Learning Alternatives
Chapter 15 9. Can Treatment Work? Chapter 16 10. Looking Beyond U.S.
Policies Chapter 17 References 18 Index