The Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders

✍ Scribed by Teela Sanders

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 681
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Provides comprehensive, even-handed analysis of the myriad of topics related to sex offenses, including pornography, sex trafficking, criminal justice responses, and the role of social media in sex crimes. Extending beyond the existing scholarly research on the topic, this volume teases out the key debates, controversies, and challenges involved in addressing sex crimes.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
The Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Contributors
Part I Understanding Sex Crime
1. What is sex crime?
2. Exploring the methods behind sexual violence estimates: The composition and findings from national and international surveys
3. The explanation of sexual offending
4. Sexual offenders and human rights: Protecting victims
Part II Types of Sex Crimes
5. Rape and domestic sexual assault
6. Sexual homicide and violent offenders
7. Child sexual abuse
8. Alcohol and drugs in relation to sexual offending
9. Commercial sexual exploitation of children
Part III Offenders and Victims
10. Victim–offender overlap among sex offenders
11. Female sex offenders
12. The juvenile sex offender: Criminal careers and recidivism risk
13. A developmental life-course perspective of juvenile and adult sexual offending
14. Victimization and revictimization
Part IV Regulation and Control
15. The role of policy in preventing sexual violence
16. The policing of sexual activity
17. Sentencing high-risk sex offenders: Policy and legislation
18. The aftermath of sex offender registration and other controls
Part V Management and Intervention
19. Risk assessment of sex offenders
20. Treatment of sex offenders: Concepts and empirical evaluations
21. Informal social control of sex offenders: The family and other forms of support
22. Restorative justice and sex offending
Part VI Social and Cultural Aspects
23. Public perceptions of sex crimes and sex offenders
24. The media response to sex crimes
25. The paedophile in popular culture: Fictional representations of sex crime
26. Social media, cyberspace, and sex crime: Deviant and democratizing spaces
Part VII Transgression and Sex
27. The criminalization of sexuality
28. Prostitution and sex work
29. Pornography
30. Sex trafficking and control
Index

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