Current Perspectives on Sex Crimes

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Ronald M. Holmes, Stephen T. Holmes
SAGE, 2002 - Psychology - 403 pages

This wide-ranging anthology offers a variety of perspectives with excerpts from books and current articles from research journals, plus four original contributed articles. Topics covered include the major types of sex crimes and offenders, therapies, juvenile sex offenses, and nuisance sexual offenders. This book is designed as a stand alone or as a supplemental text to Sex Crimes, 2/e.

Features of this text include:

  • Cutting-edge articles by top scholars in the field
  • Major units of the reader parallel and enhance the contents of Sex Crimes 2/e
 

Contents

The Transformative Power of Sex Work
24
Men
85
Homosexuality Transvestism and Transsexualism 99 66
99
The Plague That Persists
115
Juvenile Sex Crimes and Behaviors Offenders and Victims
131
73
153
Dangerous Sex Crimes
171
Rape
217
Special Issues and Concerns of Sex Behaviors and Crimes
267
Where Should We Intervene? Dynamic Predicators
300
Is Sex Offender Notification
320
Real Science or Just Wishful Thinking?
331
References
351
Index
393
About the Editors
Copyright

The Role of Rape
254

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About the author (2002)

Ronald M. Holmes is Coroner, in the Jefferson County Coroner′s office and Professor Emeritus of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville. He is the author of several books, among them Profiling Violent Crimes, Sex Crimes, and Serial Murder. He is also the author of more than 50 articles appearing in scholarly publications. He is Vice President of the National Center for the Study of Unresolved Homicides and has completed more than 500 psychological profiles for police departments across the United States. He received his doctorate from Indiana University. is Coroner, in the Jefferson County Coroner′s office and Professor Emeritus of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville. He is the author of several books, among them and He is also the author of more than 50 articles appearing in scholarly publications. He is Vice President of the National Center for the Study of Unresolved Homicides and has completed more than 500 psychological profiles for police departments across the United States. He received his doctorate from Indiana University. Stephen T. Holmes is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. Prior to this position, he was a social science analyst for the National Institute of Justice in Washington, D.C. He has authored 6 books and more than 15 articles dealing with policing, drug testing, probation and parole issues, and violent crime. He received his doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.

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