Protecting our kids?: how sex offender laws are failing us
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[2015]
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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 offender 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 monitered 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. -- from dust jacket.
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Child sex offenders -- Rehabilitation -- United States
Child sex offenders -- United States
Child sexual abuse -- United States -- Prevention
Child sex offenders -- Rehabilitation -- United States
Child sex offenders -- United States
Child sexual abuse -- United States -- Prevention
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Child sexual abuse
Civil rights
Prevention
Rehabilitation
Child sexual abuse
Civil rights
Prevention
Rehabilitation
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