Unspeakable acts : why men sexually abuse children

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Label

Unspeakable acts : why men sexually abuse children

Title remainder

why men sexually abuse children

Statement of responsibility

Douglas W. Pryor

Creator

• Pryor, Douglas W

Subject

• Child molesters
• Child sexual abuse -- United States -- Case studies
• Criminal Psychology
• Child Abuse, Sexual -- psychology
• Fallstudiensammlung
• Abus sexuels à l'égard des enfants -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de
• Interviews
• United States
• Pédophiles -- États-Unis -- Entretiens
• Kind
• USA
• Sexueller Missbrauch
• Täter
• Child sexual abuse
• Case studies
• Child molesters -- United States -- Interviews

Genre

• Case studies
• Interviews

Language

eng

Summary

• The sexual abuse of children is one of the most morally unsettling and emotionally inflammatory issues in American society today. It has been estimated that roughly one out of every four girls and one in ten boys experience some form of unwanted sexual attention either inside or outside the family before they reach adulthood. An alarmingly common occurrence, sexual abuse is traumatic and life-altering for children in its impact. How should society deal with the sexual victimization of children? Should known offenders be released back into our communities? If so, where, and with what rights, should they be allowed to live? In Unspeakable Acts, Douglas W. Pryor argues that much of this debate, designed to deal with abusers after they have offended, ignores the important issue of why men cross these forbidden sexual boundaries to molest children in the first place and how the behavior can possibly be prevented before it starts
• Based on in-depth interviews with thirty men who molested their own children or the children of people they knew, Pryor provides a unique glimpse of those who become offenders. His analysis explores how the lives of offenders prior to their offending led up to and contributed to what they did, the ways that initial interest in sex with children began, the tactics offenders employed to molest their victims over time, how they felt about and reacted to their behavior between offending episodes, and how and why they stopped abusing

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

364.1536

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6570.2

LC item number

.P77 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 1997 E-042
• WM 610

NLM item number

P9715u 1996