Titlebook: Understanding Sexual Offending; An evidence-based re Patrick Lussier,Evan C McCuish,Jesse Cale Textbook 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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The Construction of Sexual Offending as a Social Problem : A Historical Perspectivesexual offending has been constructed or defined differently across generations. The chapter highlights the presence of four generational social constructions where the “sex offender” has been portrayed as a sexually deviant person, as an angry misogynist, as a sexual predator, and more recently as

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Why Sexual Offending?on and factors explaining their behavior. Theoretical developments have challenged such portrayals based on myths, misconceptions, and broad generalizations. This chapter provides an overview of theories and explanatory models of sexual offending. This theoretical development is uneven and fragmente

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Sex Offenders Under the Microscope: Are They Unique? and community settings to identify what is unique about these perpetrators. The research has been so extensive that multiple meta-analyses have been conducted to shed light on what is unique about these perpetrators. This chapter provides a review of these meta-analytic findings. In doing so, the c

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Once a Sex Offender, Always a Sex Offender?ues that since desistance from offending is the norm for even serious offenders, research should focus on why individuals do not continue to offend. This chapter reviews the evidence for sexual and nonsexual offending discontinuity over the life course among persons involved in a sex crime. Overall,

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