Handbook of Forensic Sexology Biomedical and Criminological Perspectives

Name: Handbook of Forensic Sexology Biomedical and Criminological Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780879758837

ISBN-10: 087975883X

ISBN-13: 9780879758837

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Authors: James J. Krivacska, John Money

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The relationship of scientific research on human sexuality (sexology) to society's legal, judicial, and law enforcement systems (forensics) is the focus of this encyclopedic volume. Editors James J. Krivacska and John Money have assembled contributions by leading experts, covering a wide range of legal and medical issues pertaining to the interconnection between law and sexual behavior.Section One examines the nature of paraphilic behavior and the social framework within which some of it becomes illegal. The topics discussed include sodomy, pedophilia, incest, sexual abuse, rape, exhibitionism, prostitution, and sexual harassment.Section Two looks at current strategies for assessing the…

Book details

List price: $135.99
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 7/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 594
Size: 6.24" wide x 9.26" long x 1.91" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



List of Contributors


Preface



Prologue




Sodomy Laws




Pedophilia: Paraphilic Attraction to Children




Incest Taboo and Sexual Abuse




Rape and the Sadomasochistic Paraphilias




Genital Exhibitionism and Voyeurism: Theories and Treatment




The Medicolegal Investigation of Autoerotic Asphyxial Deaths




Prostitution




Transsexualism, Sex Reassignment, and the Law




Sexual Harassment in the Workplace and in Psychotherapeutic Relationships




The Alleged Child Victim and Real Victims of Sexual Abuse




Case Management of Sexual Abuse Victims: Child, Adolescent, and Adult




The Manufacture of Sexual Abuse "Memories": Psychiatry's Latest Fad




Allegations of Satanism and Ritual Sex Abuse




Assessment of the Adult Alleged Offender




Case Management and Prognosis of the Sex Offender




Public Policy and Sex Offenses: Social Tolerance versus Criminalization




Paraphilic Prevention: Social and Legal Implications




The Alleged Link between Pornography and Violence




The Impact of Sexology on the Provision of Sex Education, Contraception, and Abortion Services




AIDS and Sexology




Sex Policy and the Law in China: Then and Now




Forensic Sexology in Russia




A Paradigm Shift for Expert Witnesses




"Slippage" in Research on Child Sexual Abuse: Science as Social Advocacy



Epilogue



Subject Index