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Inside the Mind of Sexual Offenders: Predatory Rapists, Pedophiles, and Criminal Profiles [Paperback]

Dennis Stevens (Author)
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October 8, 2001
This book is about sexual offenders. Not the ones on television or at your local movie theater. These are real violators engaged in compulsive criminally violent behavior including abduction, serial rape, sexual homicide, necrophilia, and other grotesque acts visited upon a vulnerable American population whose justice system fails to control. That is, this work departs from an antiseptic world of fiction for a frightening glimpse through the eyes of men, women, children who like cross-eyed creatures lurking on a different plane of existence see their wickedness through a mask of sanity. This work contains a full disclosure of three generations of incarcerated sexual offenders, from grandparents to their grandchildren, who committed the most horrendous acts towards others. In fact, there is no way of knowing how many victims this family assaulted, but in the final analysis there are specifics that you will come to understand about them that may change your point of view about that ultimate punishment available to us. The chapter on predatory pedophiles is a case study of three predators ranging in age from 17 to 52. It reveals the realities of pedophiles and explains why most pedophiles are rarely apprehended, and if they are, why they are eventually released from custody.

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Dr. Dennis J. Stevens is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Massachusetts Boston, works in high custody prisons and police agencies, and writes nonfiction work about crime, cops, and corrections.

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  • Paperback: 228 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse (October 8, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 059520046X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0595200467
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #909,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. Dennis J. Stevens - see www.crimeprofessor.com

Dr. Stevens holds the distinction of Suma Cum Laude as an undergraduate in education and sociology, Magna Cum Laude as a master's degree graduate in psychology and sociology, and Highest Honors when he earned his Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago in 1991. Currently, he teaches criminology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Formally, he held the positions of Ph.D. director at University of Southern Mississippi, Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice and Sociology at a large regional North Carolina college. In addition to teaching traditional students, he has taught and counseled enforcement and correctional personnel at law academies such as the North Carolina Justice Academy and the Boston Police Academy and felons at maximum custody penitentiaries such as Attica in New York, NC Women's Institute in North Carolina, Stateville near Chicago, and MCI Framingham (women) in Massachusetts. Stevens has published several textbooks used in justice, psychology, and sociology university classrooms across the country and has conducted almost 100 scholarly studies published in the peer reviewed press which include the prestigious Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, and The Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Stevens has been retained by state legislative committees to investigate corruption among narcotic officers, by international security corporations such as Wackenhut and Blackwater to develop manuals on the use of force, and national governments to better understand custody control methods. He has led group intervention groups for sexually abusive parents in New York, North Carolina, and South Carolina and has led group crisis sessions among New Orleans and Jefferson Parish officers after Hurricane Katrina. Currently, he is the managing director of Justice Writers of America (JWA). Currently, he is the editor of Justice Writers of America, a small band of writers who help justice and social science professionals develop articles, stories, and dissertations.

 

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2.0 out of 5 stars Does this author have an editor?, September 13, 2003
This review is from: Inside the Mind of Sexual Offenders: Predatory Rapists, Pedophiles, and Criminal Profiles (Paperback)
This is a brilliant and fascinating subject matter, however, I could not for the life of me decide how a Ph.D. author could possibly get a book published with so many English spelling and grammar errors that I had to check repeatedly the front cover for the name of the author. I thought perhaps English was not his first language. But a Ph.D? And a name like Dennis Stevens? Well, in any case, there were so many completely unbelievable spelling, grammar, and syntax errors that unfortunately these over-shadowed what may have been a good book. Also, be forewarned: If you CAN get past the errors, this author loves statistics, he does his studies by interviewing actual inmates or felons/criminals themselves, then goes on to say less about the mind of the criminal than the statistics of the crimes they are likely to commit. I usually pass on my books. This one is trash. I gave it two stars because there actually was a paragraph or two that made sense.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars OK, if you just want to hear from offenders, September 8, 2002
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This book was full of typos and other mistakes, which made the reading difficult. The author does illuminate some theories, but not fully. He spends a great deal of time bashing the media and other sources for their perpetuation of the rape myths and fears. While I agree that his insights may be valid and certainly share some important views, the book is basically a collection of interviews from convicted sex offenders and their perspective. Most sex offenders will tell you that they rape for sex. Most people often don't realize the true motivation for their behavior. I don't think the offenders interviewed had the insight or the vocabulary to truly describe their experiences and cognitive processes, but their actions certainly reveal how they objectify women and use them to satisfy their own desires. Therefore, the book contains their own accounts in their own words with little commentary from the author on the psychological significance of their statements. Rather, the author spends more time arguing that we should base research on these sources rather than anything else. As a therapist, I didn't find this book particularly enlightening or useful in treating these individuals in therapy. The grammatical errors and misspelled words also made the book difficult to read.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Of Middling Value, May 8, 2002
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This is a better book than Inside the Criminal Mind, but not as good as the works of Lonnie Athens. Stevens seems to have done his fieldwork by dispatching students with questionnaires to prisons. The result is an insightful guide into the mind of serial rapist with some compelling advice for potential victims based on his findings. The text is hampered by numerous typos (there is more than one reference to people "steeling" for example) and a few glaring grammatical mistakes. He does, at least, rely more on what criminals have told him than on vague statistical studies and he is no dupe. His strength is that he understands the complicated factors that go into making a predator, the difficulty of getting them to change, and the need for better programs to protect the public from the development of such hard core abusers. You will have a better, less slanted insight into how a rapist thinks after you read this book. Stephens, like Lonnie Athens, dares to look at the problem head on, refute the myths and political expediencies of the past, and suggest a program for both government and individual citizens that could go a long way towards reducing the incidence of predatory rape and pedophilia.
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