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 

Voyeurism: A Criminal Precursor and Diagnostic Indicator to a Much Larger Sexual Predatory Problem in Our Community

Voyeurism: A Criminal Precursor and Diagnostic Indicator to a Much Larger Sexual Predatory Problem in Our Community

Voyeurism: A criminal precursor and diagnostic indicator to a much larger sexual predatory problem in our community
JosephDavis, California State University, San Diego

Sexual assault is one of the most serious and fastest growing violent crimes in the United States. The National Victim Center, located in Bethesda, Maryland, reported that more than 700,000 women are raped or sexually assaulted annually (American Medical Association, 1995). Furthermore, there is the growing concern regarding serial rape and sexually related homicide (Prentky et al., 1989). All sexual acts, paraphilias, and sexually related crimes, organized or disorganized, begin with fantasy, and when an individual suffers from sexual aberrations or perversions, the fantasy and corresponding behaviors ...

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