Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment. Yet even when evidence shows that people with these conditions often pose little threat to society, or lack a core understanding as to why their actions break the law, the "sex offender legal regime" doesn't allow any room to take the disability into account.

This ground-breaking book offers a multi-disciplinary examination of how unjust sex offense laws trap vulnerable groups such as those with developmental disabilities. Drawing on research, empirical evidence and including case studies, experts from the fields of law, ethics, psychology and sociology explore what steps should be taken in order to ensure that laws are just and take into consideration factors such as the vulnerability of the perpetrators. Investigating the consequences caused by public hysteria over sex offenses, this book highlights the judicial failure to protect defendants with developmental disabilities in the context of the unjust and hyper-punishment of all those charged with sex offenses. Proposing a new way forward based on research and evidence-based sentencing for sex offenses, and elimination of the sex offender registry, this book offers an informed and compassionate view that is essential for all professionals working in this field.

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Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Introduction: Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System: Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses
1. A Father’s Journey to Protect His Son: A Legal Perspective
2. Child and Juvenile Pornography and Autism Spectrum Disorder
3. Representing an Autism Spectrum Disorder Individual Charged with Possession of Internet Child Pornography: A Case Study
4. Forensic Assessment of Individuals on the Autism Spectrum Charged with Child Pornography Violations
5. Sex Offenses, Lies, and Politics: The Web of the Registry
6. Tilting at Windmills: The Misplaced War on Child Pornography Offenders
7. Egregious Flaws Discredit the Butner Redux Study: Effective Policies for Sentencing Federal Child Pornography Offenders Require Findings Based on Valid Research Principles
8. Accessors and Distributors of Child Pornography: Not Who You Think They Are
9. Collateral Damage of Sex Offender Management Policies for Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome and Their Family Members
10. An Alternative Universe: The Perspective of an Autistic Registrant
11. Navigating Judicial Responses for Those Caught in the Web
12. Asperger’s Syndrome and Downloading Child Pornography: Why Criminal Punishment is Unjust and Ineffective
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Appendix: Judicial Diversion in Child Pornography Cases
Subject Index
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