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Sex Offenders and Public Policy (Current Controversies)
Sex Offenders and Public Policy (edited by Lynn M. Zott) is a 2007 anthology within the Current Controversies series. It designed to present sharply contrasting viewpoints on criminal justice, legislation, treatment, and public responses to sexual offending. The book organizes contemporary debates into four central questions: whether sex-offender policy rests on accurate assumptions, whether treatment works, what controversies surround current policy, and how policies might be improved. Each chapter juxtaposes essays by policymakers, prosecutors, journalists, scholars, professional organizations, and critics, offering a panoramic view of how American society constructs sexual danger, evaluates risk, and negotiates the tension between public safety, constitutional protections, empirical evidence, and moral outrage. The structure encourages critical thinking by exposing contradictions between fear-driven legislative action, research findings on recidivism, the limits of punitive approaches, and arguments for more evidence-based, rights-respecting alternatives.