This thought-provoking work raises important questions about sex
offender laws, drawing from personal stories, research, and data to
prove the policies promote fear, destroy lives, and fail to protect
children. Do sex offender laws protect children, or are they
inherently unfair practices that, at their worst, promote vigilante
justice? The latter, this book argues. By analyzing the social,
political, historical, and cultural context surrounding the
emergence of current sex offender policies and laws, the work shows
how sex offenders have come to loom as greater-than-life monsters
when, in many cases, that is not true at all. Looking at its
subject from a fresh viewpoint, the book shares research and new
analyses of data and qualitative evidence to show how sex-offender
laws are not only ineffective, but engender destructive fear and
anxiety. To help readers understand the impact of these laws, the
author presents interviews with sex offenders and their families as
they describe the day-to-day reality of living on the sex offender
registry. Citing research and statistics, the book challenges the
idea that sex offenders must be continually monitored and publicly
identified because they are incurably predatory. Most important,
the study shows that undue sex offender panic is preventing
policymakers from addressing the true threats to children-poverty
and growing inequality. Provides research-based evidence that the
mean-spirited and panic-driven sex offender laws, aimed at branding
a group of offenders as inhuman and unworthy of civil liberties and
human rights, increases fear, destroys the lives of offenders and
their families, and fails to protect children Shows that
emphasizing sex offenders and stranger-danger as the primary threat
to child well-being and safety prevents focus on and attention to
policies that prevent far more pervasive forms of child abuse, such
as physical abuse, neglect, and maltreatment Analyzes the
sociohistorical context surrounding the emergence of current
draconian sex offender policies Challenges the idea that sex
offenders must be continually monitored and publicly identified
Tells the stories of convicted sex offenders and their families and
how they survive in a society that views them as the "worst of the
worst"
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