Child sexual abuse : media representation and government reactions / Julia Davidson.
- 作者: Davidson, Julia.
- 出版: London : Routledge-Cavendish c2008.
- 主題: Child sexual abuse--Government policy--Great Britain. , Child sexual abuse--Great Britain. , Child sexual abuse--Prevention Government policy--Great Britain. , Child sexual abuse--Prevention Law and legislation--Great Britain. , Mass media--Political aspects--Great Britain. , Mass media and crime--Great Britain. , Criminal registers--Great Britain. , Mass media and public opinion--Great Britain.
- ISBN: 9781904385691 (hbk) 、 1904385699 (hbk) 、 9781904385684 (pbk) 、 1904385680 (pbk) :: US$47.95
- 書目註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號: 005144555 | 機讀編目格式
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Child Sexual Abuse critically evaluates the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders. The last fifteen years has seen increasing concern on the part of the government, criminal justice agencies, the media and the public, regarding child sexual abuse. This concern has been prompted by a series of events including cases inviting media attention and involving the abduction, sexual abuse and murder of young children. The response to this wave of child sexual abuse revelation has been to introduce increasingly punitive legislation regarding the punishment and control of sex offenders (sex offenders are the only group of offenders in British legal history to have their own act), both in custody and in the community. But this response, it is argued here, has developed in a reactionary way to media and public anxiety regarding the punishment and control of sex offenders (who have abused children) and the perceived threat of such offenders in the community.