The perversion of youth : controversies in the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders / Frank C. DiCataldo
- Author:
- DiCataldo, Frank C.
- Published:
- New York : New York University Press, [2009]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2009
- Physical Description:
- x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- The birth of a moral panic -- The return of the blob : the heterogeneity of juvenile sex offenders -- Test authors in search of a clinical population : risk assessment instruments for juvenile sex offenders -- The adolescent as sexual deviant : the treatment of juvenile sex offenders -- Creating the objects of our concern : normal childhood sexuality and the invention of childhood sexual behavior problems -- Becoming a man : the waiver of the juvenile sex offender to adult court -- Making monsters : the civil commitment of juvenile sex offenders -- Collateral consequences : the invisible punishment of the juvenile sex offender.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780814720011 (cl : alk. paper)
0814720013 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814720028 (pb : alk. paper)
0814720021 (pb : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.
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