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Protecting our kids? : how sex offender laws are failing us / Emily Horowitz.
Van Pelt Library HV6570.2 .H67 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horowitz, Emily.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child sex offenders--United States.
- Child sex offenders.
- Child sex offenders--Civil rights--United States.
- Child sex offenders--Rehabilitation--United States.
- Child sexual abuse--United States--Prevention.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Rehabilitation.
- Civil rights.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 181 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ; [2015]
- Summary:
- Do sex offender laws protect children, or are they inherently unfair practices that, at their worst, promote vigilante justice? The latter, this book argues. By analyzing the social, political, historical, and cultural context surrounding the emergence of current sex offender policies and laws, the work shows how sex offenders have come to loom as greater-than-life monsters when, in many cases, that is not true at all. Looking at its subject from a fresh viewpoint, the book shares research and new analyses of data and qualitative evidence to show how sex-offender laws are not only ineffective, but engender destructive fear and anxiety. To help readers understand the impact of these laws, the author presents interviews with sex offenders and their families as they describe the day-to-day reality of living on the sex offender registry. Citing research and statistics, the book challenges the idea that sex offenders must be continually monitored and publicly identified because they are incurably predatory. Most important, the study shows that undue sex offender panic is preventing policymakers from addressing the true threats to children--poverty and growing inequality.
- Contents:
- Child abuse becomes a social problem
- Race and poverty matter
- Sex offender panic
- Sex offenders are different
- Case study: New York
- Child porn panic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781440838620
- 1440838623
- OCLC:
- 898167352
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