The Dilemma of the Sexual Offender - Palermo, George B. (Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, 2001)
TITLE PAGE: THE DILEMMA OF THE SEXUAL OFFENDER; TITLE PAGE: THE DILEMMA OF THE SEXUAL OFFENDER; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; CONTENTS; Chapter 1: WOMEN IN SOCIETY; Chapter 2: IS EVIL REAL?; Chapter 3: DEVIANT SEXUALITY; Chapter 4: RAPE AND RAPISTS; Chapter 5: LUST MURDERERS; Chapter 6: THE RELATIONSHIP OF MENTAL ILLNESS TO SEXUAL OFFENDING; Chapter 7: VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND THEIR VICTIMIZERS; Chapter 8: TREATMENT; Chapter 9: SEX OFFENDER LAWS: A RECURRENT HISTORY OF SPECIAL PROVISIONS; Chapter 10: THE LOGIC OF SEX OFFENDER LAWS AND POLICIES; CONCLUSION; Appendix
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This book was born out of the pressure imposed on forensic experts by the new sexual predator laws and the dilemma they have created. These include how we conceptualize sexual offenders and their victimization, how to manage and control sex offender behavior, and how to resolve the conflict of forensic experts in the roles of both treatment providers and as agents of social control under the mandates of sex-offender specific laws. The book is a synthesis of the clinical research on the subject by a large number of scholars presented within the larger perspective of the problem itself, closer t