The Perversion of Youth: Controversies in the Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders

by Frank DiCataldo and Frank C. Dicataldo

Book Overview

Over the past two decades, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering heated coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. Americans' reaction to such stories has prompted the unquestioned application to adolescents of harsh legal and clinical intervention strategies designed for serious adult offenders, with little attention being paid to the psychological maturity of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814720021
• ISBN13: 9780814720028
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"