Lisa A. Zilney is an assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, a Masters from Eastern Kentucky University, and a B.A. from the University of Windsor in Canada. Laura J. Zilney is a Sexologist with a private practice near Toronto, Ontario, Canada . She is a graduate from the University of Waterloo, Carleton University, and received her doctorate from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.

The Zilneys present a story of how sex crime laws were created by analyzing the changing roles of religion and the medical community, and offer theoretical explanations for sex offending from the perspective of criminology and sexology.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I: Historical Perspectives on Sexual Offending1 The Role of ReligionChristianity Judaism2 The Medical ModelThe Medical ModelKey figures in MedicineDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersOther Tests for Sexual "Predators"3 Is There Any Explanation?Sexological ThoeryFeminist TheorySociological and Criminological TheoriesThe Usefulness of Theory4 Historical Sexual Offending LawsSocietal Responses to Sexual OffendingCase Study: The Changing Age of PubertyA war on Sexual Offenders Begins in the 1930sReform of the 1960s and 1970sThe 1980sPart II: The Crime and the Criminals5 Laws, Laws, and more LawsChapter 11 6. Counting the ProblemChapter 12 7. Controlling OffendersChapter 13 8. Considering the VictimsPart 14 III. Learning AlternativesChapter 15 9. Can Treatment Work?Chapter 16 10. Looking Beyond U.S. PoliciesChapter 17 References18 Index

Lisa A. Zilney is an assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, a Masters from Eastern Kentucky University, and a B.A. from the University of Windsor in Canada. Laura J. Zilney is a Sexologist with a private practice near Toronto, Ontario, Canada . She is a graduate from the University of Waterloo, Carleton University, and received her doctorate from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.

The Zilneys present a story of how sex crime laws were created by analyzing the changing roles of religion and the medical community, and offer theoretical explanations for sex offending from the perspective of criminology and sexology.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I: Historical Perspectives on Sexual Offending1 The Role of ReligionChristianity Judaism2 The Medical ModelThe Medical ModelKey figures in MedicineDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersOther Tests for Sexual "Predators"3 Is There Any Explanation?Sexological ThoeryFeminist TheorySociological and Criminological TheoriesThe Usefulness of Theory4 Historical Sexual Offending LawsSocietal Responses to Sexual OffendingCase Study: The Changing Age of PubertyA war on Sexual Offenders Begins in the 1930sReform of the 1960s and 1970sThe 1980sPart II: The Crime and the Criminals5 Laws, Laws, and more LawsChapter 11 6. Counting the ProblemChapter 12 7. Controlling OffendersChapter 13 8. Considering the VictimsPart 14 III. Learning AlternativesChapter 15 9. Can Treatment Work?Chapter 16 10. Looking Beyond U.S. PoliciesChapter 17 References18 Index

Lisa A. Zilney is an assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, a Masters from Eastern Kentucky University, and a B.A. from the University of Windsor in Canada. Laura J. Zilney is a Sexologist with a private practice near Toronto, Ontario, Canada . She is a graduate from the University of Waterloo, Carleton University, and received her doctorate from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.

The Zilneys present a story of how sex crime laws were created by analyzing the changing roles of religion and the medical community, and offer theoretical explanations for sex offending from the perspective of criminology and sexology.

• AcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I: Historical Perspectives on Sexual Offending1 The Role of ReligionChristianity Judaism2 The Medical ModelThe Medical ModelKey figures in MedicineDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersOther Tests for Sexual "Predators"3 Is There Any Explanation?Sexological ThoeryFeminist TheorySociological and Criminological TheoriesThe Usefulness of Theory4 Historical Sexual Offending LawsSocietal Responses to Sexual OffendingCase Study: The Changing Age of PubertyA war on Sexual Offenders Begins in the 1930sReform of the 1960s and 1970sThe 1980sPart II: The Crime and the Criminals5 Laws, Laws, and more LawsChapter 11 6. Counting the ProblemChapter 12 7. Controlling OffendersChapter 13 8. Considering the VictimsPart 14 III. Learning AlternativesChapter 15 9. Can Treatment Work?Chapter 16 10. Looking Beyond U.S. PoliciesChapter 17 References18 Index