Social Control of Sex Offenders - A Cultural History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	D.Richard Laws
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	238
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-39125-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Offenders > Juvenile offenders Promotions
LSN:	1-137-39125-1
Barcode:	9781137391254

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