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Sex Offenses and the Men Who Commit Them: An Assessment of Sex Offenders on Probation (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)

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I used this book in my Treatment of the Offender Class, and thought it worked nicely as one in a series of readers that critically explores the costs and benefits of alternative sanctions for convicted offenders. The author makes empirically based suggestions to reduce sexual victimization rates and in so doing challenges many of the current practices in dealing with sexual predators,, Plus it was an awesome read and students loved it!

I read this book for a graduate class (Sex Crimes) at John Jay. This book gives the facts about sex offenders and does an excellent job of debunking the myths/lies that the public are lead to believe about sex offenders. Anyone working with sex offenders should read this study.

This book is just an extended version of what should have been a journal article. In the first half of the book, there is a biased assessment of "the system." The perspective is clearly sympathetic to sex offenders, whom the author believes are being unfairly treated. The second half of the book includes numerous quotes from sex offenders, mostly complaints. Some of this is interesting, but the author fails to analyze these quotes and explain a common theme--that these sex offenders do not truly believe that what they did was wrong. I am further disappointed that the book does not include any in-depth explanation on the part of the offenders as to why they committed these crimes.