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Responding to Sexual OffendingCommunity-Based Management of Sexual Offender Risk: Options and Opportunities

Responding to Sexual Offending: Community-Based Management of Sexual Offender Risk: Options and... [There are few, if any, communities anywhere in the world that are unconcerned about the potential for renewed harm posed by people who have engaged in sexual abuse. A quick glance at any newspaper will confirm that this topic inspires a lot of strongly emotional rhetoric. Indeed, people who have engaged in sexual abuse appear to be one of the very few groups of people that many others in the community would regard as disposable or unredeemable. The reasons for these perspectives are obvious — the types of people most likely to be victimized are women, children, and other vulnerable persons. However, as much as many members of the community might like to lock up the offenders and throw away the key, emerging perspective suggests that sexual abuse is a social health problem that we can realistically tackle (Levenson and Prescott, 2013), but that this will likely require more and better research to confirm (Hanson, 2014).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Responding to Sexual OffendingCommunity-Based Management of Sexual Offender Risk: Options and Opportunities

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society Book Series
Editors: McCartan, Kieran
Wilson, Robin J.; Prescott, David S.
Responding to Sexual Offending — Nov 30, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-47099-0
Pages
20 –47
DOI
10.1057/9781137358134_2
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Abstract

[There are few, if any, communities anywhere in the world that are unconcerned about the potential for renewed harm posed by people who have engaged in sexual abuse. A quick glance at any newspaper will confirm that this topic inspires a lot of strongly emotional rhetoric. Indeed, people who have engaged in sexual abuse appear to be one of the very few groups of people that many others in the community would regard as disposable or unredeemable. The reasons for these perspectives are obvious — the types of people most likely to be victimized are women, children, and other vulnerable persons. However, as much as many members of the community might like to lock up the offenders and throw away the key, emerging perspective suggests that sexual abuse is a social health problem that we can realistically tackle (Levenson and Prescott, 2013), but that this will likely require more and better research to confirm (Hanson, 2014).]

Published: Nov 30, 2015

Keywords: Sexual Abuse; Child Sexual Abuse; Sexual Violence; Sexual Offender; Sexual Recidivism

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