| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The production of siting conflicts over SVP placements -- Political mobilization in countrified suburbia -- Litigating in a rural outpost -- Politics, litigation, and disorganization in an urban city -- The local context of community opposition to SVP placements -- Solving the sex offender housing dilemma -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: selecting cases, gaining access, and collecting data in three communities |
| Summary |
"When a South Carolina couple killed a registered sex offender and his wife after they moved into their neighborhood in 2013, the story exposed an extreme and relatively rare instance of violence against sex offenders. While media accounts would have us believe that vigilantes across the country lie in wait for predators who move into their neighborhoods, responses to sex offenders more often involve collective campaigns that direct outrage toward political and criminal justice systems. No community wants a sex offender in its midst, but instead of vigilantism, [the author] argues, citizens often leverage moral, political, and/or legal authority to keep these offenders out of local neighborhoods. Her book, the culmination of four years of research, 70 in-depth interviews, participant observations, and studies of numerous media sources, reveals the origins and characteristics of community responses to sexually violent predators (SVP) in the U.S. Specifically, [this book] examines the placement process for released SVPs in California and the communities' responses to those placements. Taking the reader into the center of these related issues, [the author] provokes debate on the role of communities in the execution of criminal justice policies, while also addressing the responsibility of government institutions to both groups of citizens."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sex offenders -- Housing -- California
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Sex offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- California
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Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation -- California
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Community activists -- California
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Sex offenders -- Housing -- United States
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Sex offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation -- United States
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Community activists -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Community activists
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Sex offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation
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California
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479871247 |
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1479871249 |
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