Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Child Abduction, Personality Disorder, Social Forces
13 Mar 2018
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Sexual behaviours throughout history and around the world are in uenced by moral codes, social and cultural expectations, myths, and religious beliefs. What is considered criminal or sexually deviant caries by perspective, location and time period. Dangerousness refers to the capacity of the o ender to harm himself, herself, or others. Risk refers to the probability of recidivism that risk that the o ender will commit another sexual o ence in the future. The justice model 1970s: emphasis on ideas of due process, determinant sentences, proportionality between o ence and sentence given. The community protection approach late 1980s/early 1990s - present: emphasis on protection, rights of victims and public safety, calls for more focus on level of risk posed by o ender, not so much treatment. Idea that strangers are the biggest threat to us. More than 80% of sexual o ences committed against children are people known to them. Most often child abduction is by parent, not stranger.
