Moral panic : changing concepts of the child molester in modern America /

Philip Jenkins.
Bok · Engelsk · 1998 · Electronic books

Utgitt	New Haven, CT : : Yale University Press, , c1998.
Omfang	1 online resource (xii, 302 p. )
Opplysninger	Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Creating facts -- Constructing the sex crime, 1890-1934 -- The age of the psychopath, 1935-1957 -- The sex psychopath statutes -- The liberal era, 1958-1976 -- The child abuse revolution, 1976-1986 -- Child pornography and pedophile rings -- The road to hell: ritual abuse and recovered memory -- Full circle: the return of the sexual predator in the 1990s -- A cycle of panic.. - "It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem as a far less serious one, declaring that molestation was very rare and that molesters were merely confused individuals unlikely to repeat their offenses. Over the past century, opinion has fluctuated between these radically different perspectives. This timely book traces shifting social responses to adult sexual contacts with children, whether this involves molestation by strangers or incestuous acts by family members. The book explores how and why concern about the sexual offender has fluctuated in North America since the late nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Emner	Child molesters - Psychology. - United States Child sexual abuse - United States. Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency Social Sciences Vis mer... Social Welfare & Social Work barnemishandling forente stater pedofili seksuelle overgrep barn
Sjanger	Electronic books
Dewey	364.15/554/019
ISBN	0300073879