Rehabilitating Criminal Sexual Psychopaths: Legislative Mandates, Clinical Quandaries

by Nathaniel J. Pallone

More than half the states in this country have legislation on sex offenders that distinguishes between those whose offense is incidental to other offenses ("felony" sexual offenders), and those who engage in "repetitive, habitual, or compulsive" sex offenses ("criminal sexual psychopaths"). This second category is the subject of this book.

The legislation specifies that criminal sexual psychopaths must be treated, not punished. But treatment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887383408
• ISBN13: 9780887383403
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 140 Pages