The Dilemma Of The Sexual Offender

Download or read book The Dilemma of the Sexual Offender written by George B. Palermo and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was born out of the pressure imposed on forensic experts by the new sexual predator laws and the dilemma they have created. These include how we conceptualize sexual offenders and their victimization, how to manage and control sex offender behavior, and how to resolve the conflict of forensic experts in the roles of both treatment providers and as agents of social control under the mandates of sex-offender specific laws. The book is a synthesis of the clinical research on the subject by a large number of scholars presented within the larger perspective of the problem itself, closer t.