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There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessments, in much of the West an increasing focus on rehabilitation through therapy provides hope that psychological transformation is possible. Examining the experiences of child sex offenders undergoing therapy in Germany—where such treatments are both a legal right and duty—John Borneman, in Cruel Attachments, offers a fine-grained account of rehabilitation for this reviled criminal type.
Carefully exploring different cases of the attempt to rehabilitate child sex offenders, Borneman details a secular ritual process aimed not only at preventing future acts of molestation but also at fundamentally transforming the offender, who is ultimately charged with creating an almost entirely new self. Acknowledging the powerful repulsion felt by a public that is often extremely skeptical about the success of rehabilitation, he challenges readers to confront the contemporary contexts and conundrums that lie at the heart of regulating intimacy between children and adults.
Carefully exploring different cases of the attempt to rehabilitate child sex offenders, Borneman details a secular ritual process aimed not only at preventing future acts of molestation but also at fundamentally transforming the offender, who is ultimately charged with creating an almost entirely new self. Acknowledging the powerful repulsion felt by a public that is often extremely skeptical about the success of rehabilitation, he challenges readers to confront the contemporary contexts and conundrums that lie at the heart of regulating intimacy between children and adults.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9780226233918, 9780226233888eBook ISBN
9780226234076Index
abandonment, 4, 28, 37, 86, 133, 134, 138, 139, 156, 172, 173
abuse: as child sex abuse, 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 27, 32–36, 40, 41, 45–50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 66–68, 71–86, 91, 94, 97, 99, 100, 102, 106, 107, 108, 110, 112, 121, 122, 125–27, 135, 136, 138, 139, 141–46, 152, 156, 157, 174, 176, 178, 180, 186, 189, 199, 200, 206, 211, 219, 220, 223, 228–31, 233–36; as physical abuse, 3, 16–17, 23, 45, 66, 76, 84, 85, 157, 161, 173, 184, 185, 188, 189, 192
androgen deprivation treatment (ADT), 57
Aries, Philippe, 222
assault, 54, 68, 78, 79, 85, 94, 115, 150, 228n16, 231n9
authenticity, 42, 52, 53, 141
Beech, Anthony, 93, 121, 157
Behandlung, 62, 107, 120, 128, 214, 226n7
Berkel, Irene, vii, 55, 82, 106, 118, 122, 230n1
Bion, Wilfried, 100, 102, 143, 144
Butler, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prolegomenon
- One / The Phenomenon of Child Molestation
- Two / Incest, the Child, and the Despotic Father
- Three / Rehabilitation of Pedophiles
- Four / Knowledgeability and the Materiality of Child Sex Abuse
- Five / Seduction and Empathy
- Six / New Germans
- Seven / Loose End
- Notes
- References
- Index