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9780801443787

Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws And the Rise of the Preventive State

by Janus, Eric S.
  • ISBN13:

    9780801443787

  • ISBN10:

    0801443784

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-07-01
  • Publisher: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Summary

Most crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to the victim-acquaintances and family members. Yet politicians and the media overemphasize predatory strangers when legislating against and reporting on sexual violence. In this book, Eric S. J

Author Biography

Eric S. Janus is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Worst of the Worst? 1(12)
Part I Fateful Choices
New Legislative Approaches
13(12)
Judicial Promises and Betrayals
25(17)
A Factual Primer on Sexual Violence
42(18)
Benefits and Costs
60(15)
Part II Consequences
Feminism, the Culture Wars, and Sexual Violence
75(18)
Harbinger of the Preventive State?
93(20)
Part III Course Corrections
There Are Alternatives
113(17)
The Politics of Sexual Violence
130(15)
Righting Public Policy against Sexual Violence
145(16)
Notes 161(20)
Index 181

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