The sex offender housing dilemma : community activism, safety, and social justice /

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"When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us believe that vigilantes across the countr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Monica (Sociologist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Sex offenders > Housing > California.
Sex offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > California.
Sex offenders > Rehabilitation > California.
Community activists > California.
Sex offenders > Housing > United States.
Sex offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Sex offenders > Rehabilitation > United States.
Community activists > United States.
Délinquants sexuels > Logement > Californie.
Délinquants sexuels > Logement > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Community activists
Sex offenders > Legal status, laws, etc.
Sex offenders > Rehabilitation
California
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The production of siting conflicts over SVP placements
  • Political mobilization in countrified suburbia
  • Litigating in a rural outpost
  • Politics, litigation, and disorganization in an urban city
  • The local context of community opposition to SVP placements
  • Solving the sex offender housing dilemma
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: selecting cases, gaining access, and collecting data in three communities.

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