Reconsidering sex crimes and offenders : prosecution or persecution?
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Reconsidering sex crimes and offenders : prosecution or persecution?
ABC-CLIO, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-161) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This examination of our nation's sex crime laws and the social attitudes behind them argues that many citizens are being pursued as sex offenders for nonviolent and oftentimes consensual sexual behaviors.
Cutting through the hysteria and hype, Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders: Prosecution or Persecution? argues that while convicted violent sex offenders certainly should be punished, many laws targeting minor sexual offenses are outdated, overly severe, and too concerned with satisfying public outrage driven by distortions, misconceptions, and sensationalistic media coverage.
Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders is sure to challenge readers' understanding of who a sex offender is, how they should be treated, and how best to protect the community from such offenders. The book looks at how the legal definitions of certain offenses have changed over time and then explores a series of real-life case studies. Readers will discover how some citizens have been targeted and punished for consensual acts—including homosexuality, polygamy, and pornography. Additional coverage considers a number of highly controversial laws—from residency restrictions to the death penalty—and the media's role in fueling public support for them.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: EXPLAINING SEXUAL OFFENDING
CHAPTER 1: Religion, Medicine, and Social Science
Religion
The Medical Model
Who Has Influenced the Making of a Sex Offender?
How Do Social Scientists Explain Sexual Offending?
Learning from Associates: Social Learning Theory
The Influence of Culture: Social Control Theory
Individual Decisions: Rational Choice Theory
What's in a Label? Social Reaction Theory
How Do Sexologists Explain Sexual Offending?
Socio-Sexual Response Cycle
Sexual Anthropology
CHAPTER 2: How Many Sex Offenders Are There?
Child Sexual Offenses
Adult Sexual Offenses
Internet Sexual Offenses
Female Sexual Offenders
Juvenile Sexual Offenders
Who Is the "Typical" Offender?
PART II: PASSING LAWS
CHAPTER 3: Creating Laws to Deal with Sex Offenders
The Media's Role in Creating a Moral Panic
Societal Responses to Sexual Offending
Sexual Psychopath Legislation of the 1930s
Reforms in Legislation
Legislation of the 1990s and Beyond
CHAPTER 4: Case Studies of Select Laws
The Phenomenon of To Catch a Predator
Case Study: Dateline Show Results in Death
Residency Restrictions
Case Study: Georgia's Banishment Laws
Civil Commitment
Case Study: Double Jeopardy Isn't What It Seems
The Death Penalty Case Study
PART III: AN ANALYSIS OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER 5: "So-Called" Sex Crimes
Oral Sex
Case Study: Oral Sex and Race
Homosexuality and Sodomy
Case Study: Matthew Limon
Case Study: Assaulted While Sleeping
Case Study: Public Sex
Prostitution
Case Study: The Hollywood Madame
Sadomasochism
Statutory Offenses
Case Study: Marcus Dixon
Bestiality and Zoophilia
Polygamy
Case Study: Polygamy in Utah
Swinging
Incest
Case Study: Sex with a Stepdaughter
CHAPTER 6: Sexually Explicit Materials
Adult Sexually Explicit Materials
Case Study: SEM and Violence Link?
The Meese Commission
Case Study: Transporting SEM
Case Study: Distribution of SEM
Case Study: Sexually Explicit Materials on the Internet
Case Study: Internet Sex in the Classroom
Child Sexually Explicit Materials
Case Study: What Is Child Pornography?
CHAPTER 7: Nonconsensual Offenses
Voyeurism
Case Study: 56 Years for Taping!
Case Study: Treat the Peeper
Exhibitionism
Case Study: Career Exhibitionism Taken Seriously in California
Case Study: Career Exhibitionism Taken Less Seriously in Hawaii
Case Study: Therapy Instead of Prison for Career Exhibitionist in North Carolina
Sexual Assault and Rape
Case Study: Sex Contracts
Case Study: The 5-Second Rule
CHAPTER 8: Separating Fact from Fiction
Are Strangers the Most Dangerous?
Do Sex Offenders Keep Re-offending?
Does Community Notification and Registration Increase Community Safety?
Do Residency Restrictions Increase Community Safety?
Does Treatment Work?
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
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