Sexual Aggression Against Children

Pedophiles’ and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law

Jerome Blackman, Kathleen Dring

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317378198
• Subtopic: Criminal Law
• Index: Psychology

In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs. Blackman and Dring use multiple psychoanalytic principles to answer, "Why do people sexually abuse children?" and "Why are most abusers male"? They address the legal and mental health professions' minimization of the horrific nature of child sexual abuse, explain how to assess pedophiles' treatability, and discuss cases of adolescent and adult predators. Also, developmental analysis of sexual predation is integrated with a review of judicial decisions regarding civil commitment and punishment of abusers. The authors suggest how courts, evaluators, and legislatures can preserve constitutional rights of sexual offenders while prioritizing protection of children.

Index

abstraction ability: consequences of damage to 53; the function 53

abusive parents, assessing psychopathology and treatability in 17

acting out 45, 95, 152, 176

actuarial assessment: admissibility debate 186–187; clinical assessment vs 184, 185–186; prediction of future dangerousness using 164, 177

Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act see AWA

Addington v. Texas 131n4, 132, 144, 174

admissibility, the Frye test 178, 180

adolescence: beginning of and effectiveness of treatment 63; consolidation of sexual abuse pathology during 80; developmental aberrations of male abusers 76–81

adolescents: characteristics recognised by the Supreme Court 150; treatability 46–47

adult psychopathology, Freud’s equivocation about the aetiological significance of childhood sexual abuse 1n2

age of consent 16–17, 43

aggressive drive, hostile-destructive aggression 39; see also hostile-destructive aggression

Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act 138

alcohol/alcoholism/alcohol abuse 30, 33, 94, 107, 151

Almansi, R. 72

amendment 150, 154

American Psychiatric Association see APA

amicus curiae 183

anal phase of child development 41, 65–68

anal rape 27, 60; and psychoanalytic drive theory 41

anger 11, 26–27, 54, 56, 67–69, 74, 86, 90, 110–112, 114, 117, 119

animism, young children’s belief in 51n9

annihilation anxiety 84

antisocial personality disorder 45, 133, 141–142, 144, 166, 169, 191

APA (American Psychiatric Association) 16, 134, 158, 177, 182–183

“ARISE: Adaptive Regression In the Service of the Ego” 54n11

assault, definition 40

ATSA (Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers) 176, 186

attachment, lack of and superego deficits 62

“auditory hallucinations” 55

Austin Powers (1997 et seq.) 50n6

autistic children 46

autistic regression 92

autistic thinking: Bleuler’s term 55; definition 32; definition 32; effectiveness of medication against 63; examples 32, 61

“autonomous ego functions” 51n8

autonomy: and adolescent development 78–79; importance of in child development 60

AWA (Adam Walsh Act): government’s burden under 196; and juvenile sex offenders 152; procedures established by 135; purpose of enactment 137; system provisions 137; see also SORNA (Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act)

“band of brothers” 126–127

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Section A What is the Pathology of Child Sexual Predators?
• Section B Legal Issues Raised by Child Sexual Offenders
• Section C Bibliography and References Discussed in this Book
• Section D List of Legal Citations in the Text
• Section E Reading List of Works not Cited in the Text
• Index