Review: Sex Crime: Sex Offending and Society, Stone's Justices' Manual, Blackstone's Police Q&A and Blackstone's Police Sergeant's Mock Examination Paper 2005, the Criminal Jury Old & New: Jury Power from Early Times to the Present Day
| Author | Rob Jerrard,Rob R. Jerrard,Alexandra Harrington,Kim Stevenson |
| Published date | 01 June 2005 |
| Date | 01 June 2005 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1350/pojo.2005.78.2.175 |
ROB R. JERRARD
Reviews Editor
www.rjerrard.co.uk
REVIEWS
SEX CRIME: SEX OFFENDING AND SOCIETY
2nd edition, 2005
Terry Thomas
Willan Publishing
ISBN: 1–84392–105–7; price £17.99 RRP UK
Reviewed by Kim Stevenson
A welcome second edition of this book provides a compre-
hensive review of official and popular responses to the problem
of sex offending in its broadest context and summarises the
various professional approaches and legislative measures in
force to deal with illegal sexual conduct. This is a huge subject
and the author starts off in the Introduction by providing a useful
overview and reminding us of the diverse nature of the subject
by exemplifying the different types of behaviour and conduct
that the law has classified and punished as a sexual offence. Thus
the book not only covers offences of sexual violation, including
rape and child sexual abuse, but outlines provisions relating to
the control and prohibition of sexuality and sexual identity in
relation to prostitution and homosexuality.
The following two chapters focus on the public perception of
those individuals legally defined as perpetrators or violators and
contemporary societal and professional responses to the prob-
lems they present. As to be expected from a criminologist, the
sociological context is convincingly analysed as exemplified in
the discussion in chapter 2 about how sexual offenders have been
culturally constructed and demonised by society and the media
drawing on theories of dangerousness and moral panic. Press
and local public reactions to the release and presence of paedo-
philes in the community are detailed by reference to newspaper
reportage and the News of the World‘s ill-founded campaign
for the UK equivalent of Megan’s Law: Sarah’s law, so-named
in response to Roy Whiting’s murder of Sarah Payne. The views
of medical professionals in seeking to find justifications and
‘cures’ for sexually abusive conduct is summarised together with
a passing reference to feminist perspectives. For those with a
The Police Journal, Volume 78 (2005)175
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