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Pamela Schultz
Pamela D. Schultz is a professor of communication studies in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Alfred University in Alfred, New York.
Schultz’s scholarship interrogates how societies construct and communicate sexual deviance, with particular attention to the rhetoric and moral panics surrounding child sexual abuse and sex-offender policy. Her work combines rhetorical analysis, communication ethics, and criminology to critique punitive public policies and to propose evidence-based alternatives. Since 1995 she has also served as a volunteer educator with incarcerated sex offenders in a medium-security correctional facility in western New York, grounding her academic analyses in first-hand clinical and narrative work.
Education
BA: Communication Arts and English Oakland University, 1984
MA: Mass Communication Bowling Green State University, 1986
PhD: Communication Wayne State University, 1994
Major Works
- Asperger’s Syndrome and Downloading Child Pornography: Why Criminal Punishment is Unjust and Ineffective. (2017). (With J. Douard). In L. A. Dubin & e. Horowitz, eds., Caught in the Web of the Justice System: Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
- "Revelations and Cardinals’ Sins: Moral Panic over 'Pedophile Priests' in the United States" (2013). In C. Krinsky, ed., The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics. London, UK: Ashgate.
- "A Rhetoric of Retribution and Redemption: Burke’s Terms for Order in the Drama of Child Sexual Abuse" (2011). International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 34, 168-176.
- "Scapegoating the Sex Offender-the Monstrous Other" (2011). (With J. Douard). In B. K. Schwartz, ed., Handbook of Sex Offender Treatment. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute.
- "Naming, Blaming and Framing: Moral Panic over Child Molesters and Implications for Public Policy" (2008). In C. Krinsky, ed., Moral Panic over Children and Youth. London, UK: Ashgate.
- "Not Monsters: Sex Offender as Scapegoat" (2008). (With John Douard). In B. K. Schwartz, ed., The Sex Offender, Vol. VI. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute.
- "Treating Sex Offenders Makes Sense." (2007). In L. Zott (Ed.), Current Controversies: Sex Offenders and Public Policy (pp.85-89). Garland, TX: Gale Group.
- Not Monsters: Analyzing the Stories of Child Molesters (2005). New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
- A Critical Analysis of the Rhetoric of Child Sexual Abuse (2001). Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.
- "Sex Offender Community Notification Policies: Balancing Privacy and Disclosure" (2000). In S. Petronio, ed., Balancing the Secrets of Private Disclosures. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Several of these titles have been translated into Japanese and Korean editions.