Sex Crimes: Perpetrators, Predators, Prostitutes, And Victims

This volume consists of a criminological and sociological examination of sex criminality in the US, its nature, characteristics, dimensions, and ramifications. It covers the broad range of sex crimes as both a distinct classification of crime and as individual offences and discusses sex-related homicides, rape, incest, sexual predatory crimes, prostitution, theories on sexual criminality, and the criminal justice system. It has been updated and has a new chapter on sex trafficking in the US and related international aspects. Statutory rape is also discussed in this edition. The book is meant for academics and professionals in a variety of fields, in addition to survivors and general readers. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)