Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America - Hardcover

Jenkins, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300073879 ISBN 13: 9780300073874

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This study traces shifting social responses to adult sexual contacts with children. The author explores how and why concern about the sexual offender has fluctuated in North America since the late-19th century, placing reactions to the problem in a broad political and cultural context.

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Reseña del editor

It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem as a far less serious one, declaring that molestation was very rare and that molesters were merely confused individuals unlikely to repeat their offenses. Over the past century, opinion has fluctuated between these radically different perspectives. This timely book traces shifting social responses to adult sexual contacts with children, whether this involves molestation by strangers or incestuous acts by family members. The book explores how and why concern about the sexual offender has fluctuated in North America since the late nineteenth century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0300073879
• ISBN 13: 9780300073874
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar