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Child sexual abuse, media representation and government reactions, Julia Davidson

eng

no index present

non fiction

Child sexual abuse

electronic resource

dictionaries

Julia Davidson

Contemporary issues in public policy

media representation and government reactions

Topical and critical in style, this book provides readers with an evaluation of the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders in the UK., Child Sexual Abusecritically evaluates the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders. The last fifteen years has seen increasing concern on the part of the government, criminal justice agencies, the media and the public, regarding child sexual abuse. This concern has been prompted by a series of events including cases inviting media attention and involving the abduction, sexual abuse and murder of young children.Theresponse to this wave of child sexual abuse revelation has been to introduce increasingly punitive legislation regarding the punishment and control of sex offenders (sex offenders are the only group of offenders in British legal history to have their own act), both in custody and in the community. But this response, it is argued here, has developed in a reactionary way to media and public anxiety regarding the punishment and control of sex offenders (who have abused children) and the perceived threat of such offenders in the community