Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 269 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780814720028
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0814720013
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9780814720011
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0814720021
Series Statement:
Psychology and crime series
Content:
Over the past two decades, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering heated coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order . Americans' reaction to such stories has prompted the unquestioned application to adolescents of harsh legal and clinical intervention strategies designed for serious adult offenders, with little attention being paid to the psychological maturity of the offender. Many strategies being used today to deal with juvenile sex offenders-and even to define what criteria to use in defining "juvenile s
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Birth of a Moral Panic; 2 The Return of the Blob: The Heterogeneity of Juvenile Sex Offenders; 3 Test Authors in Search of a Clinical Population: Risk Assessment Instruments for Juvenile Sex Offenders; 4 The Adolescent as Sexual Deviant: The Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders; 5 Creating the Objects of Our Concern: Normal Childhood Sexuality and the Invention of Childhood Sexual Behavior Problems; 6 Becoming a Man: The Waiver of the Juvenile Sex Offender to Adult Court; 7 Making Monsters: The Civil Commitment of Juvenile Sex Offenders
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8 Collateral Consequences: The Invisible Punishment of the Juvenile Sex OffenderEpilogue; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814720011
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Perversion of Youth : Controversies in the Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders
Language:
English
URL:
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