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 | #1627550 in Books |  2016-06-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.58 x.76 x6.25l,.0 | File Name: 1137391251 | 238 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Moral panic run amok|By Karen Franklin|The modern war on sex offenders took root in the fertile soil of the satanic abuse hysteria of the 1980s. But unlike some other moral panics, this one has yet to subside. D. Richard Laws traces the rise of the modern sex offender containment industry back through time, from the U.S. colonial era through the 19th century’s medicaliza| |“D. Richard Laws traces the rise of the modern sex offender containment industry back through time, from the U.S. colonial era through the 19th century’s medicalization of deviance and onward to efforts at scientific crime control and prediction b

This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed.