This wide-ranging anthology offers a variety of perspectives with excerpts from books and current articles from research journals, plus four original contributed articles. Topics covered include the major types of sex crimes and offenders, therapies, juvenile sex offenses, and nuisance sexual offenders. This book is designed as a stand alone or as a supplemental text to Sex Crimes, 2/e. Features of this text include: Cutting-edge articles by top scholars in the field Major units of the reader parallel and enhance the contents of Sex Crimes 2/e 

Dangerous Sex Crimes
Dangerous sex crimes

In this section, we will examine dangerous sex crimes practices through articles dealing with serial murder, pyromania, arson, lust-motivated murder, psychopathology of incarcerated sex offenders, and marital homicide and marital rape. This sections deals with perhaps the most serious of sex crimes and behaviors.

Dangerous sex crimes have become a fascination. Films such as Hannibal, Copy Cat, Kiss the Girls, and others attempt to capture the essence of the sexual predator in film for an analysis of the sequential violent offender. Books written about true and fictional offenders are almost guaranteed to be best-sellers if for no other reason than the topic itself. A cottage industry has been established by those who have recently retired from the FBI because they show ...

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