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Cruel Attachments (Hardcover)
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Cruel Attachments (Hardcover)
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There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the
child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia,
he is often considered to be outside the moral limits of the human,
profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessments, in much
of the West an increasing focus on rehabilitation through therapy
provides hope that psychological transformation is possible.
Examining the experiences of child sex offenders undergoing therapy
in Germany - where such treatments are both a legal right and duty
- John Borneman, in Cruel Attachments, offers a fine-grained
account of rehabilitation for this reviled criminal type. Carefully
exploring different cases of the attempt to rehabilitate child sex
offenders, Borneman details a secular ritual process aimed not only
at preventing future acts of molestation but also at fundamentally
transforming the offender, who is ultimately charged with creating
an almost entirely new self. Acknowledging the powerful repulsion
felt by a public that is often extremely skeptical about the
success of rehabilitation, he challenges readers to confront the
contemporary contexts and conundrums that lie at the heart of
regulating intimacy between children and adults.
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