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PROTECTING SOCIETY FROM SEXUALLY DANGEROUS OFFENDERS: LAW, JUSTICE, AND THERAPY

BRUCE J. WINICK & JOHN Q. LA FOND

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction.

Section I: Sexually Violent Predator Laws: Problems and Solutions

Chapter 1. Lawrence W. Fitch and Debra A. Hammen, The New Generation of Sex Offender Commitment Laws: Which States Have Them and How Do They Work?
Chapter 2. Roxanne Lieb, State Policy Perspectives on Sexual Predator Laws

Section II: Sex Offenders and Dangerousness.
Chapter 3. R. Karl Hanson, Who Is Dangerous and When Are They Safe? Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders
Chapter 4. Roy Lacoursiere, Evaluating Offenders under a Sexually Violent Predator Law: The Practical Practice

Section III: Sex Offenders and Treatment
Chapter 5. Marnie E. Rice and Grant T. Harris, What We Know and Don’t Know About Treating Adult Sex Offenders
Chapter 6. Eric S. Janus, Treatment and the Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders
Chapter 7. Howard V. Zonana, Richard J. Bonnie, and Steven K. Hoge, In the Wake of Hendricks: The Treatment and Restraint of Sexually Dangerous Offenders Viewed from the Perspective of American Psychiatry

Section IV. The Rational, Constitutionality, and Morality of Sexual Predator Commitment Laws
Chapter 8. Leonore M. J. Simon, Matching Legal Policies with Known Sex Offenders
Chapter 9. Stephen J. Morse, Bad or Mad?: Sex Offenders and Social Control
Chapter 10. Robert F. Schopp, “Even a Dog…” Culpability, Condemnation, and Respect for Persons
Chapter 11. John Kip Cornwell, Sex Offenders and the Supreme Court: The Significance and Limits of Kansas v. Hendricks

Section V. Alternative Strategies for Protecting the Community
Chapter 12. Bruce J. Winick, A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws
Chapter 13. William D. Pithers, Alison Gray, and, Michalle E. Davis, Investing In The Future of Children: Building Programs for Children or Prisons for Adult Offenders
Chapter 14. Robert D. Miller, Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders: Treatment or Punishment?
Chapter 15. Kim English, Linda Jones, and Diane Patrick, Community Containment of Sex Offender Risk: A Promising Approach

Section V: Evaluating the Wisdom of Sexually Violent Predator Laws.
Chapter 16. John Q. La Fond, The Costs of Enacting a Sexual Predator Law and Recommendations for Keeping Them from Skyrocketing
Chapter 17. Jonathan Simon, Sex Offenders and the New Penology
Chapter 18. Bruce J. Winick, A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Assessment of Sexually Violent Predator Laws

Conclusion.

Index
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