The perversion of youth controversies in the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders
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 h...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
c2009.
New York, NY : [2009] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Psychology and crime series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798353606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
