The perversion of youth : controversies in the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders / Frank C. DiCataldo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiCataldo, Frank C.

Series:

Psychology and crime series.

Psychology and crime series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage sex offenders--Psychology.

Teenage sex offenders.

Teenage sex offenders--Rehabilitation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2009.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 sex offender"—do not have empirical support and, Frank C. DiCataldo cautions, may be doing more harm to children and society than good.The Perversion of Youth critiques the current system and its methods for treating and categorizing juveniles, and calls for a major reevaluation of how these cases should be managed in the future. Through an analysis of the history of the problem and an empirical review of the literature, including specific cases and their outcomes, DiCataldo demonstrates that current practices are based more on our collective fears and moral passions than on any supportive science or sound policy.

Contents:

The birth of a moral panic

The return of the blob : the heterogeneity of juvenile sex offenders

Test authors in search of a clinical population : risk assessment instruments for juvenile sex offenders

The adolescent as sexual deviant : the treatment of juvenile sex offenders

Creating the objects of our concern : normal childhood sexuality and the invention of childhood sexual behavior problems

Becoming a man : the waiver of the juvenile sex offender to adult court

Making monsters : the civil commitment of juvenile sex offenders

Collateral consequences : the invisible punishment of the juvenile sex offender.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780814785225

0814785220

9781441615640

1441615644

OCLC:

779828338