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Author Janus, Eric S.

Title Failure to protect : America's sexual predator laws and the rise of the preventive state / Eric S. Janus.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  345.7302 J35F    Check Shelf
Description ix, 184 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-180) and index.
Contents Introduction: The worst of the worst? -- PART I: FATEFUL CHOICES: New legislative approaches -- Judicial promises and betrayals -- A factual primer on sexual violence -- Benefits and costs -- PART II: CONSEQUENCES: Feminism, the culture wars, and sexual violence -- Harbinger of the preventive state? -- PART III: COURSE CORRECTIONS: There are alternatives -- The politics of sexual violence -- Righting public policy against sexual violence.
Subject Sex offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Civil commitment of sex offenders -- United States.
Sex crimes -- United States.
Preventive detention -- United States.
ISBN 0801443784 cloth alkaline paper
9780801443787 cloth alkaline paper
9780801475313 paperback
0801475317 paperback
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