The sex offender housing dilemma : : community activism, safety, and social justice / / Monica Williams.
The controversy surrounding community responses to housing for sexually violent predators 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 off...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, New York : : New York University Press,, [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 8 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- 1. The Production of Siting Conflicts over SVP Placements
- 2. Political Mobilization in Countrified Suburbia
- 3. Litigating in a Rural Outpost
- 4. Politics, Litigation, and Disorganization in an Urban City
- 5. The Local Context of Community Opposition to SVP Placements
- 6. Solving the Sex Offender Housing Dilemma
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- Statutes Cited
- References
- Index
- About the Author