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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DiCataldo, Frank C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Psychology and crime series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.