A seemingly endless struggle continues to exist over policy prescriptions for convicted sex offenders. The oversimplified answer is to enact more punitive measures, however futile they may be, to appease a misinformed populace. This review essay looks at three titles that examine the policy justifications for sex offenders and explain the expensive and irrational measures taken in both American and British society to try to gain some control over this class of criminal and mental health cases.
Belenko, S. (1998). Research on drug courts: A critical review. National Drug Court Institute Review, 1(1), 1-23.
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Hickey, E. (2006). Sex crimes and paraphilia. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
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Holmes, S. T., & Holmes, R. M. (2002). Sex crimes: Patterns and behaviors (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Reiman, J. (2004). The rich get richer and the poor get prison: Ideology, class and criminal justice (7th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
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Sex crimes: Patterns and behaviors, by Stephen T. Holmes and Ronald M. Holmes [Book review].
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Sexual offenses and offenders: Theory, practice, and policy, by Karen J. Terry [Book review].
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Terry, K. (2006). Sexual offenses and offenders: Theory, practice, and policy. Belmont, CA: Thompson/Wadsworth.
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Wexler, D., & Winick, B. (1991). Therapeutic jurisprudence as a new approach to mental health law, policy analysis and research. University of Miami Law Review, 19, 979-979.
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Wildavsky, A., & Pressman, J. (1974). Implementation, how great expectations in Washington are dashed in Oakland: or, Why it’s amazing that federal programs work at all, this being a saga of the Economic Development Administration as told by two sympathetic observers who seek to build morals on a foundation of ruined hopes. Berkeley: University of California Press.
