Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fix, Rebecca
• Ingram, Maggie
• Letourneau, Elizabeth J
• Proulx, Jean
• Cortoni, Franca
• Craig, Leam A

Titel

Problem Sexual Behavior

Ist Teil von

• The Wiley Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders, 2020, p.427-440

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter encourages thoughtful and critical evaluation of policies that affect the lives of children under age 18 who have engaged in illegal sexual behavior, as well as the practice of professionals who work with these children. It focuses on the policies enacted in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America that affect children who have engaged in illegal sexual behavior. The chapter begins with an argument for developing separate policies for children versus adults. In Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, children with a sexual‐offense conviction face often‐insurmountable stigmatization and forfeiture of their civil rights, without empirical basis. The chapter reviews failed and ineffective policies, as well as policies that appear to be effective or promising. It ends with suggestions for how to best advance sound policies for children who have engaged in illegal sexual behavior.