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.
Today's convicted sex offenders living in the community face a number of serious barriers to reintegration as a result of ... The social consequences of these policies are exacerbated by residency restriction laws that push offenders ...
Ultimately, this book questions whether it makes sense to locate responsibility for responding to sexual offending solely within the criminal justice domain.
Explains and conceptualizes social control in its diversity.
Cleary studied non-sex offenders, in-treatment sex offenders, and never-treated sex offenders to determine whether their behavior reflected the General Theory of Crime. She explored the link between abusive parenting and...
In Sex Fiends, Perverts, and Pedophiles, Chrysanthi Leon argues that, while the singular notion of the sexual boogeyman has been used to justify these harsh policies, not all sex offenders are the same and such OCyone size fits allOCO ...
Adams et al . ( 1998 ) examined the effects of deviant labels on members of different racial backgrounds . Utilizing data from the National Youth Survey ( NYS ) , Adams et al . found that minorities are more likely to be affected by ...
Bachman , R. , and R. Paternoster . 1993. A contemporary look at the effects of rape law reform : How far have we really come ? Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 84 : 554-574 .
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Jensen, G. F. (2007). The sociology of deviance. In C. D. Bryant & D. L. Peck (Eds.), The handbook of 21st century sociology (pp. 370–379). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Jobes, P. C., Barclay, E., ...
The sexual psychopath could not be released until he was “cured” or no longer posed a risk to society (Fitzgerald, 1990). Yet there was no evidence that any of these involuntary treatments were effective in treating the sex offenders or ...
This book will be useful in teaching courses in a range of disciplines—especially criminology and criminal justice, history, political science, sociology, women and gender studies, and law.