[PDF.35vx] Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State

Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State

[PDF.rs45] Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State

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 | #1589400 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2009-02-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.45 x5.98l,.60 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| A must-read!|By Karen Franklin|In this insightful book, law professor Eric Janus cogently explains why sexual predator legislation, despite its allure of zero tolerance for sexual violence, makes for very bad public policy.

Predator laws will never work, he argues, because they target only a tiny fraction of sexual violence. An empty "cleansing ritual," they requir| ||"Janus makes a persuasive case that by throwing vast resources at a few offenders while hiding the true scope of sexual violence, sexual predator laws do more harm than good. Not only is the public not much safer than it was before civil commitment became wid

Most crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to the victim―acquaintances and family members. Yet politicians and the media overemphasize predatory strangers when legislating against and reporting on sexual violence. In this book, Eric S. Janus goes far beyond sensational headlines to expose the reality of the laws designed to prevent sexual crimes. He shows that "sexual predator" laws, which have intense public and political support, are counterprodu...

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