The perversion of youth
Subtitle: controversies in the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders
By: Frank C. DiCataldo.
Series: Psychology and crime series
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814720011; 9780814720028
Subjects: Teenage sex offenders -- Psychology; Teenage sex offenders -- Rehabilitation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of a moral panic; title: The return of the blob : the heterogeneity of juvenile sex offenders; title: Test authors in search of a clinical population : risk assessment instruments for; title: Juvenile sex offenders; title: The adolescent as sexual deviant : the treatment of juvenile sex offenders; title: Creating the objects of our concern : normal childhood sexuality and the; title: Invention of childhood sexual behavior problems; title: Becoming a man : the waiver of the juvenile sex offender to adult court; title: Making monsters : the civil commitment of juvenile sex offenders; title: Collateral consequences : the invisible punishment of the juvenile sex offender.