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Book SynopsisOver the years, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. This book critiques the system and its methods for treating and categorizing juveniles, and calls for a reevaluation of how these cases should be managed in the future.
Trade ReviewIn a masterful and wonderfully readable blend of science, cases, legal analysis and clinical insight, DiCataldo shows us that the problem is not 'them,' but rather our own unsupportable images and presumptions about who 'they' are. If policy makers, clinicians and researchers read this book with an open mind, it could bring long-overdue change to our nation’s responses to youth whose sexual behavior sometimes troubles us. -- Thomas Grisso,Director, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Provides a well-informed and comprehensive assessment of today’s psychological and legal environments that surround youth who have committed sexual offenses. This book will be a valuable resource to clinicians, researchers, attorneys, judges, and policymakers who deal with this complex topic. -- Brent J. Oneal,Private Forensic Practice/Clinical Instructor, University of Washington, Seattle
DiCataldo's texts is a very welcomed addition to the study of adolescent sexuality as it reminds us of the need to consider the remarkable breadth of adolescents' experiences and evaluated the appropriateness of societal responses to them. -- Danielle Schwegman * Journal of Youth & Adolescence *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Birth of a Moral Panic 2 The Return of the Blob: The Heterogeneity of Juvenile Sex Offenders 3 Test Authors in Search of a Clinical Population: Risk Assessment Instruments for Juvenile Sex Offenders 4 The Adolescent as Sexual Deviant: The Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders 5 Creating the Objects of Our Concern: Normal Childhood Sexuality and the Invention of Childhood Sexual Behavior Problems 6 Becoming a Man: The Waiver of the Juvenile Sex Offender to Adult Court 7 Making Monsters: The Civil Commitment of Juvenile Sex Offenders 8 Collateral Consequences: The Invisible Punishment of the Juvenile Sex Offender Epilogue References Index About the Author
