Violent Criminal Acts and Offenders. By L. H. Athens. (Pp. 104; £6.50.) Routledge & Kegan Paul: Henley-on-Thames. 1980. - Sex Offenders in the Criminal Justice System. Edited by D. J. West. (Pp. 221; illustrated; £3.50.) Institute of Criminology: Cambridge. 1980.

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 206-206
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Violent Criminal

Sex Panic and Denial

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-482
Author(s):  
Corey Rayburn Yung
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Goal ◽  
Residency Restrictions

The American criminal justice system regarding sex is not just logically incoherent, it is also often morally bankrupt because it remains unexamined and poorly understood. This Article contends that there are actually common roots underlying the seemingly oppositional forces of social panic and denial, which explain why the United States has an endemic sexual violence problem. Both panic and denial reinforce the implicit, and sometimes explicit, desire to avoid substantive engagement with socially contentious issues related to sex. The use of residency restrictions and civil commitment fit the modern social goal of putting sex offenders out-of-sight and out-of-mind. Yet, those same desires also explain America’s unwillingness to believe victims of sexual violence and police failure to properly investigate criminal complaints. In this way, sex panic dovetails with sex denial—in both instances, American culture only permits a limited discussion and understanding of sex and sexual violence. The result is that our nation fails to take sex crime complaints seriously while overreacting to the few convictions that emerge from the hostile criminal justice system.

scholarly journals Perpetrators and Pariahs: Definitional and Punishment Issues For Child Sex Offenders, and Therapeutic Alternatives for the Criminal Justice System

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Charlotte Rose Glab
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Therapeutic Jurisprudence ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Therapeutic Assistance ◽  
Therapeutic Alternatives

<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A punitive approach to criminal sentencing is profoundly counterintuitive in circumstances where incarceration and criminal labelling expedites, rather than prevents, recidivism. In a bid to avoid physical contact offences some paedophiles self-manage with low-level offending, such as viewing child exploitation material. These individuals are child sex offenders who may be receptive to rehabilitation with therapeutic assistance, yet are punished in a system deficient of genuine rehabilitation methodology. Therapeutic jurisprudence approaches for paedophiles have seen great success in international jurisdictions. This article contends that it  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">is not without merit as an alternative for Australian sentencing practices. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></em></p>

The Convicted Rapist

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINE ALDER
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Violent Offenders ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Serious Offenders

The issue addressed in this article concerns the characteristics of “official rapists,” that is, males who have been processed by the criminal justice system. Presently available research findings are inadequate for developing a definitive portrait of the rapist since the study populations most often consist of rapists only. In the research for this article, incarcerated rapists were compared with other sex offenders, and with other serious property and violent offenders. A sample of 965 males was drawn from a national survey of inmates in correctional facilities. While a few differences were found (most notably rapists were more likely to be black than other offenders), in general, rapists were most often similar to both serious property and violent offenders. Rapists differed most often from other sex offenders. However, both rapists and other sex offenders were less likely to have previously served time than other serious offenders.

Commentary on Alexander (1993)

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-390
Author(s):  
SETH C. KALICHMAN
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexually Violent

This commentary on Alexander's article concerning civil commitment of sex offenders concludes that the failure of the mental health sciences to define the psychosexual pathology of sexually violent adults has resulted in an inability to address these disturbances in the criminal justice system. This situation will likely contribute to the social threats posed by sexual offenders. It is suggested that researchers work to establish the mental illness parameters of sexual violence.

The Hebephiliac: Pedophile or Teleiophiliac?

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 2507-2526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonghan Sea ◽  
Eric Beauregard
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Sexual Crimes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Male Sex

The current study aims to fill the gap on hebephile sex offenders by comparing them to a group of pedophile offenders as well as a group of teleiophile offenders. The focus of the study is to examine the victims’ and offenders’ characteristics, the crime characteristics, and the modus operandi used by a sample of 111 male sex assaults currently serving a sentence for sexual crimes in Korea. Looking at all the comparisons conducted, it seems that the hebephiliac is not more similar to the pedophile nor the teleiophiliac. He is in fact a mix of both. Aside from certain characteristics that make hebephiliacs different from the other two subtypes of sex offenders (e.g., sadism, travelling longer than 2 km to commit the crime, history of bipolar disorder), they mainly share characteristics of both groups. The current study uncovers very important differences that could prove useful for the management of these cases by the actors of the criminal justice system.

Sex Offenders

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Li-Wen G. Lee ◽  
Heather Ellis Cucolo ◽  
Jeremy Colley
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Sex Offender Registration ◽  
Legal Challenges

Chapter 28 includes cases related to the diagnosis and treatment of sexual offenders in the criminal justice system. Forensic practitioners may treat these individuals as part of their clinical work or may evaluate them to determine suitability for civil commitment upon release from prison or appropriateness for return to the community. The cases in this chapter are Specht v. Patterson, Allen v. Illinois, In re Young and Cunningham, Kansas v. Hendricks, McCune v. Lile, Kansas v. Crane and U.S. v. Comstock. The new cases (Does #1-5 v. Snyder and Millard v. Rankin)add a focus on legal challenges associated with sex offender registration.

Sex Offenders

2014 ◽  
pp. 163-168
Author(s):  
Li-wen G. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Civil Commitment ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Release From Prison

Chapter 28 includes cases related to the diagnosis and treatment of sexual offenders in the criminal justice system. Forensic practitioners may treat these individuals as part of their clinical work or may evaluate them to determine suitability for civil commitment upon release from prison or appropriateness for return to the community. The cases in this chapter are Specht v. Patterson, Allen v. Illinois, In re Young and Cunningham, Kansas v. Hendricks, McKune v. Lile, Kansas v. Crane, and U.S. v. Comstock.

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