TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horowitz,Emily
TI  - Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us 
SN  - 9781440838637
AV  - HV6570.2  .H67 2015
U1  - 364.153 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Santa Barbara, CA
PB  - ABC-CLIO, LLC
KW  - Child sex offenders
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Child Abuse, Sexual
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Introduction: Why Sex Offenders Matter -- 1: Child Abuse Becomes a Social Problem -- 2: Race and Poverty Matter -- 3: Sex Offender Panic -- 4: Sex Offenders Are Different -- 5: Case Study-New York -- 6: Child Porn Panic -- Conclusion: Why We Need to Talk about Sex Offenders -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - Do sex offender laws protect children, or are they inherently unfair practices that, at their worst, promote vigilante justice? The latter, this book argues. By analyzing the social, political, historical, and cultural context surrounding the emergence of current sex offender policies and laws, the work shows how sex offenders have come to loom as greater-than-life monsters when, in many cases, that is not true at all. Looking at its subject from a fresh viewpoint, the book shares research and new analyses of data and qualitative evidence to show how sex-offender laws are not only ineffective, but engender destructive fear and anxiety. To help readers understand the impact of these laws, the author presents interviews with sex offenders and their families as they describe the day-to-day reality of living on the sex offender registry. Citing research and statistics, the book challenges the idea that sex offenders must be continually monitored and publicly identified because they are incurably predatory. Most important, the study shows that undue sex offender panic is preventing policymakers from addressing the true threats to children-poverty and growing inequality
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