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Sexual aggression against children : Pedophiles' and abusers' development, dynamics, treatability, and the law
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newyork
Routledge
2016
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| Edition: | 1 Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- About the authors
- Section A: what is the pathology of child sexual predators?
- Some words of caution : denial, minimization, projection, hope, and the wish to help
- What is sexual abuse?
- Illness vs. crime
- Case examples
- Parental mistakes, accidents
- Parental overstimulation vs. heinous abuse
- Is pedophilia an illness or a crime?
- Why males' and can they be treated? an application of modern psychoanalytic development theory to sexually predatory men
- Deficits in functions
- Developmental aberrations
- Why are children targeted? and can children who abuse other children be treated?
- Symbolism and dynamics
- What to look for in pre-predators : signs and behaviors
- The rare female sexual predator
- Section B: Legal issues raised by child sexual offenders
- The legal system's response to child sexual abusers
- Commitment of sex offenders
- Judicial decision making
- Registration and notification requirements
- Due process violations
- The juvenile justice system's approach to convicted predators
- Psychoanalytic theory and juvenile courts-history
- Development issues and juvenile sex offenders
- Juvenile court history
- Juvenile sex offenders vs adult sex offenders
- Juvenile sex offenders-civil commitment, registration and notification
- Sexually violent predator civil commitment statutes and expert mental health testimony
- Mental health expert testimony in svp civil commitment hearings
- Summary of law and expert testimony-daubert, frye, and federal rules of evidence
- Sex offenders as a "special class" of prisoner
- Future dangerousness and volitional capacity
- Bibliography (referenced in the text of the book)
- List of legal citation in text
- Section E: Reading list (of works not referenced in the text).