Social control of sex offenders : a cultural history /
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: what this book is about
- Moral panic: threat to the social order
- Early historical treatment of social deviance
- The medicalizaiton of deviance: sex offender as mental patient
- The sexual psychopath/predator laws: legal construction of deviance
- Assessment of risk to reoffend: historical background
- Assessment of risk to reoffend: actuarial versus risk formulation
- Sex offender registration and community notification
- Community restrictions on sex offender behavior
- The international picture of social control
- Psychological treatment: risk reducer or life enhancer?
- Conclusions and future outlook.
