Many friends and colleagues have helped me write this book, by listening, providing
encouragement, giving advice, or by reading and commenting on all or parts of the …

An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales–for centuries, these and other traditional
concepts exemplified the public's perception of justice. Today, popular culture, including …

Sexual violence is a significant public health problem in the United States. In an effort to
decrease the incidence of sexual assault, legislators have passed regulatory laws aimed at …

This article examines the effects of labeling though informal and formal sanctions on sex
offender reintegration, using qualitative analysis from a probability sample of 153 registered …

As a distinct class of criminals, sex offenders stand out as being particularly subject to the
new “risk management” penal strategies that, according to a number of scholars, have come …

This article compares the community protection–risk management model for the control of
sex offenders with the clinical and justice models that preceded it and with a restorative …

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Rivera Beiras (Coord.) Política Criminal y Sistema Penal Viejas y nuevas racionalidades …

To an unprecedented degree American society at the turn of the twentieth century is
governed through crime. Nearly three percent of adults are in the custody of the correctional …

In both the United States and Canada, a community protection approach to the perceived
enduring dangerousness of sex offenders has emerged since the 1980s, in response to …

More is not always better. Consider sex offender registration laws. Initially anchored by
rational basis, registration schemes have spiraled out of control because legislators, eager …