Most crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to
the victim acquaintances and family members. Yet politicians and
the media overemphasize predatory strangers when legislating
against and reporting on sexual violence. In this book, Eric S.
Janus goes far beyond sensational headlines to expose the reality
of the laws designed to prevent sexual crimes. He shows that
"sexual predator" laws, which have intense public and political
support, are counterproductive.
Janus contends that aggressive measures such as civil commitment
and Megan's law, which are designed to restrain sex offenders
before they can commit another crime, are bad policy and do little
to actually reduce sexual violence. Further, these new laws make
use of approaches such as preventive detention and actuarial
profiling that violate important principles of liberty.
Janus argues that to prevent sexual violence, policymakers must
address the deep-seated societal problems that allow it to
flourish. In addition to criminal sanctions, he endorses the
specific efforts of some advocates, organizations, and social
scientists to stop sexual violence by, for example, taking steps to
change the attitudes and behaviors of school-age children and
adolescents, improving public education, and promoting community
treatment and supervision of previous offenders.
Janus also warns that the principles underlying the predator
laws may be the early harbingers of a "preventive state" in which
the government casts wide nets of surveillance and intervenes to
curtail liberty before crimes of any type occur. More than a
critique of the status quo, this book discusses serious
alternatives and how best to overcome the political obstacles to
achieving rational policy."
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