TY - BOOK ID - 77893173 TI - Moral panic : changing concepts of the child molester in modern America PY - 2008 SN - 0300148534 0585358559 9780585358550 9780300148534 0300073879 9780300073874 0300073879 PB - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Child molesters KW - Child sexual abuse KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency KW - Pedophiles KW - Pedophilics KW - Sex offenders KW - Psychology. KW - Psychology KW - 176.4 KW - 343.54 KW - Seksuele perversies KW - Delicten tegen de goede zeden en tegen de familie. Zedendelicten. Verkrachting. Seksueel misdrijf. Sadisme. Prostitutie. Proxenetisme. Pornografie. Messageries roses. Homoseksualiteit als deict KW - 343.54 Delicten tegen de goede zeden en tegen de familie. Zedendelicten. Verkrachting. Seksueel misdrijf. Sadisme. Prostitutie. Proxenetisme. Pornografie. Messageries roses. Homoseksualiteit als deict KW - 176.4 Seksuele perversies KW - 343.54 Delicten tegen de goede zeden en tegen de familie. Zedendelicten. Verkrachting. Seksueel misdrijf. Sadisme. Prostitutie. Proxenetisme. Pornografie. Messageries roses. Homoseksualiteit als delict KW - Delicten tegen de goede zeden en tegen de familie. Zedendelicten. Verkrachting. Seksueel misdrijf. Sadisme. Prostitutie. Proxenetisme. Pornografie. Messageries roses. Homoseksualiteit als delict UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893173 AB - It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem far less seriously, declaring that molestation was a very rare offense and that molesters were merely confused individuals unlikely to repeat their offenses. Over the past century, opinion has fluctuated between these radically different perspectives. This timely book traces shifting social responses to adult sexual contacts with children, whether this involves molestation by strangers or incestuous acts by family members. The book explores how and why concern about the sexual offender has fluctuated in North America since the late nineteenth century.Philip Jenkins argues that all concepts of sex offenders and offenses are subject to social, political, and ideological influences and that no particular view of offenders represents an unchanging objective reality. He examines the various groups (including mass media) who have been active in promoting particular constructions of the emerging problem, the impact of public attitudes on judicial and legislative responses to these crimes, and the ways in which demographic change, gender politics, and morality campaigns have shaped public opinion. While not minimizing sexual abuse of children, the book thus places reactions to the problem in a broad political and cultural context. ER -