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The Perversion of Youth: Controversies in the Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders

The Perversion of Youth: Controversies in the Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders

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Series: Psychology and Crime, Book 3

Child PsychologyCriminologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0814720021
ISBN13: 9780814720028
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Over the past two decades, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering heated coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. Americans' reaction to such stories has prompted the unquestioned application to adolescents of harsh legal and clinical intervention strategies designed for serious adult offenders, with little attention being paid to the psychological maturity of the offender. Many strategies being used today to deal with juvenile sex offenders--and even to define what criteria to use in defining juvenile sex offender--do not have empirical support and, Frank C. DiCataldo cautions, may be doing more harm to children and society than good.

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