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oapen-20.500.12657-893942024-05-30T11:26:32Z The Perversion of Youth DiCataldo, Frank C. and being cautions children deal DiCataldo doing empirical good harm have juvenile Many more offenders society strategies support than today used with thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology Over the past two decades, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering heated coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. Americans’ reaction to such stories has prompted the unquestioned application to adolescents of harsh legal and clinical intervention strategies designed for serious adult offenders, with little attention being paid to the psychological maturity of the offender. Many strategies being used today to deal with juvenile sex offenders—and even to define what criteria to use in defining "juvenile sex offender"—do not have empirical support and, Frank C. DiCataldo cautions, may be doing more harm to children and society than good. The Perversion of Youth critiques the current system and its methods for treating and categorizing juveniles, and calls for a major reevaluation of how these cases should be managed in the future. Through an analysis of the history of the problem and an empirical review of the literature, including specific cases and their outcomes, DiCataldo demonstrates that current practices are based more on our collective fears and moral passions than on any supportive science or sound policy. 2024-04-03T10:10:54Z 2024-04-03T10:10:54Z 2009 book ONIX_20240403_9780814785225_112 9780814785225 9780814720011 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89394 eng Psychology and Crime application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9780814785225_WEB.pdf 9780814785225_EPUB.epub New York University Press NYU Press 10.18574/nyu/9780814720011.001.0001 10.18574/nyu/9780814720011.001.0001 7d95336a-0494-42b2-ad9c-8456b2e29ddc 9780814785225 9780814720011 NYU Press 3 New York open access
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Over the past two decades, concern about adolescent sex offenders has grown at an astonishing pace, garnering heated coverage in the media and providing fodder for television shows like Law & Order. Americans’ reaction to such stories has prompted the unquestioned application to adolescents of harsh legal and clinical intervention strategies designed for serious adult offenders, with little attention being paid to the psychological maturity of the offender. Many strategies being used today to deal with juvenile sex offenders—and even to define what criteria to use in defining "juvenile sex offender"—do not have empirical support and, Frank C. DiCataldo cautions, may be doing more harm to children and society than good. The Perversion of Youth critiques the current system and its methods for treating and categorizing juveniles, and calls for a major reevaluation of how these cases should be managed in the future. Through an analysis of the history of the problem and an empirical review of the literature, including specific cases and their outcomes, DiCataldo demonstrates that current practices are based more on our collective fears and moral passions than on any supportive science or sound policy.
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