Cruel Attachments: The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

by John Borneman

Book Overview

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessments, in much of the West an increasing focus on rehabilitation through therapy provides hope that psychological transformation is possible. Examining the experiences of child sex offenders undergoing therapy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022623388X
• ISBN13: 9780226233888
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.1"