The perversion of youth : controversies in the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders / / Frank C. DiCataldo.
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 of h...
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| Superior document: | Psychology and crime series |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Psychology and crime series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.