Unspeakable Acts : : Why Men Sexually Abuse Children / / Doug W. Pryor.
The sexual abuse of children is one of the most morally unsettling and emotionally inflammatory issues in American society today. It has been estimated that roughly one out of every four girls and one in ten boys experience some form of unwanted sexual attention either inside or outside the family b...
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Pryor, Doug W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Unspeakable Acts : Why Men Sexually Abuse Children / Doug W. Pryor. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1996] ©1996 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Studying Offenders and Their Behavior -- TWO. Blurring of Boundaries in Childhood -- THREE. Escalating Problems in Adulthood -- FOUR. Shifting into an Offending Mode -- FIVE. Approaching and Engaging the Victim -- SIX. Snowballing from One Act to Many -- SEVEN. Continuing with Regular Offending -- EIGHT. Exiting Offending and Public Exposure -- NINE. Answering the Question Why -- Table 1. Recent Studies Measuring Sexual Abuse -- Appendix A. Topical Interview Guide -- Appendix B. Research Consent Forms -- Appendix C. Statistical Data on Cases -- Appendix D. The Retrospective Interpretation Problem -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The sexual abuse of children is one of the most morally unsettling and emotionally inflammatory issues in American society today. It has been estimated that roughly one out of every four girls and one in ten boys experience some form of unwanted sexual attention either inside or outside the family before they reach adulthood. How should society deal with the sexual victimization of children? Should known offenders be released back into our communities? If so, where, and with what rights, should they be allowed to live? In Unspeakable Acts, Douglas W. Pryor argues that much of this debate, designed to deal with abusers after they have offended, ignores the important issue of why men cross these forbidden sexual boundaries to molest children in the first place and how the behavior can possibly be prevented before it starts. Incorporating in-depth interviews with more than thirty convicted child molesters, Pryor explores how men become involved with breaking sexual boundaries with children. He looks at how their lives prior to offending contributed to and led up to what they did, the ways that initial interest in sex with children began, the tactics offenders employed to molest their victims over time, how they felt about and reacted to their behavior between offending episodes, and how they were ultimately able to stop. The author expands our understanding of this often reviled, little understood group, leaving us with the uneasy conclusion that the moral wall separating us from what is defined as extreme, sick behavior is not as opaque as we would like to believe. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Child molesters United States Interviews. Child sexual abuse United States Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814766378 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814768938.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814768938 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814768938/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Studying Offenders and Their Behavior -- TWO. Blurring of Boundaries in Childhood -- THREE. Escalating Problems in Adulthood -- FOUR. Shifting into an Offending Mode -- FIVE. Approaching and Engaging the Victim -- SIX. Snowballing from One Act to Many -- SEVEN. Continuing with Regular Offending -- EIGHT. Exiting Offending and Public Exposure -- NINE. Answering the Question Why -- Table 1. Recent Studies Measuring Sexual Abuse -- Appendix A. Topical Interview Guide -- Appendix B. Research Consent Forms -- Appendix C. Statistical Data on Cases -- Appendix D. The Retrospective Interpretation Problem -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Studying Offenders and Their Behavior -- TWO. Blurring of Boundaries in Childhood -- THREE. Escalating Problems in Adulthood -- FOUR. Shifting into an Offending Mode -- FIVE. Approaching and Engaging the Victim -- SIX. Snowballing from One Act to Many -- SEVEN. Continuing with Regular Offending -- EIGHT. Exiting Offending and Public Exposure -- NINE. Answering the Question Why -- Table 1. Recent Studies Measuring Sexual Abuse -- Appendix A. Topical Interview Guide -- Appendix B. Research Consent Forms -- Appendix C. Statistical Data on Cases -- Appendix D. The Retrospective Interpretation Problem -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index |
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