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Chapter 12

References from the book:

Brown, M. and Pratt, J. (eds) (2000) Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order. London and New York: Routledge.
A collection of essays with an international flavour looking at various aspects of ‘managing’ the dangerous offender, including sex offenders.

Kemshall, H. and McIvor, G. (eds) (2004) Managing Sex Offender Risk. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
A collection of essays with a UK focus looking at various angles on protecting the public from sex offending in the community.

Janus, E. (2006) Failure to Protect: Americas Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State. New York: Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
A critique of the American policies on sex offender registers, community notification, and civil commitments that has clear lessons and implications for UK policies.

Silverman, J. and Wilson, D. (2002) Innocence Betrayed: Paedophilia, the Media and Society. Cambridge: Polity.
Written by a journalist and an academic it is an easy to read account of contemporary social responses to sexual offending; particularly good on the politics, public opinion, and press side of the story.

Temkin, J. (2002) Rape and the Legal Process (2nd edn). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Although written by a lawyer and with a clear legal perspective, this is an accessible book to the non-legal reader and presents a wider picture to contextualize the law in terms of contemporary society.

Thomas, T. (2005) Sex Crime: Sex Offending and Society (2nd edn). Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing.
A general history and descriptive account of penal and social responses to sex offending; contains detailed account of the parliamentary discussion on the proposals for a sex offender register.

Further references:

Howitt, D. (1995). Paedophiles and Sexual Offences Against Children. Chichester: Wiley.
A contemporary analysis of Paedophilia as crime.
 
Ressler, R. K., Burgess, A. W. and Douglas, J. E.(1993). Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives. London: Simon and Schuster.