Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables. Analyzes controversial new legal strategies adopted over the past decades. Examines innovative measures, including sexual predator laws used to commit dangerous sex offenders to mental hospitals after they serve their sentences, registration laws, and programs.

Contributors

xiii

Preface

xv

Acknowledgments

xix

Introduction

3

(22)

Part I. Sexually Violent Predator Laws: Problems and Solutions

25

(36)

The New Generation of Sex Offender Commitment Laws: Which States Have Them and How Do They Work?

27

(14)

W. Lawrence Fitch

Debra A. Hammen

State Policy Perspectives on Sexual Predator Laws

41

(20)

Roxanne Lieb

Part II. Sex Offenders and Dangerousness

61

(38)

Who Is Dangerous and When Are They Safe? Risk Assessment With Sexual Offenders

63

(12)

R. Karl Hanson

Evaluating Offenders Under a Sexually Violent Predator Law: The Practical Practice

75

(24)

Roy B. Lacoursiere

Part III. Sex Offenders and Treatment

99

(48)

What We Know and Don't Know About Treating Adult Sex Offenders

101

(18)

Marnie E. Rice

Grant T. Harris

Treatment and the Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders

119

(12)

Eric S. Janus

In the Wake of Hendricks: The Treatment and Restraint of Sexually Dangerous Offenders Viewed From the Perspective of American Psychiatry

131

(16)

Howard V. Zonana

Richard J. Bonnie

Steven K. Hoge

Part IV. The Rationale, Constitutionality, and Morality of Sexual Predator Commitment Laws

147

(64)

Matching Legal Policies With Known Offenders

149

(16)

Leonore M. J. Simon

Bad or Mad?: Sex Offenders and Social Control

165

(18)

Stephen J. Morse

``Even a Dog . . .'': Culpability, Condemnation, and Respect for Persons

183

(14)

Robert F. Schopp

Sex Offenders and the Supreme Court: The Significance and Limits of Kansas v. Hendricks

197

(14)

John Kip Cornwell

Part V. Alternative Strategies for Protecting the Community

211

(70)

A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Analysis of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws

213

(18)

Bruce J. Winick

Investing in the Future of Children: Building Programs for Children or Prisons for Adult Offenders

231

(18)

William D. Pithers

Alison Gray

Michalle E. Davis

Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders: Treatment or Punishment?

249

(16)

Robert D. Miller

Community Containment of Sex Offender Risk: A Promising Approach

265

(16)

Kim English

Linda Jones

Diane Patrick

Part VI. Evaluating the Wisdom of Sexually Violent Predator Laws

281

(52)

The Costs of Enacting a Sexual Predator Law and Recommendations for Keeping Them From Skyrocketing

283

(18)

John Q. La Fond

Managing the Monstrous: Sex Offenders and the New Penology

301

(16)

Jonathan Simon

A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Assessment of Sexually Violent Predator Laws

317

(16)

Bruce J. Winick

Conclusion

333

(8)

Table of Authorities

341

(4)

Author Index

345

(8)

Subject Index

353

(18)

About the Editors

371

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