- 304 pages.
- 0 illustrations.
- Ebook
- 2021
- Forthcoming
- 978-0-472-12883-9
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Cary Federman takes a more sympathetic approach to sex offender legislation. He focuses on the deliberative intentions of legislators, exploring the limits of judicial review and the rights of interested parties to influence lawmaking. Leaders of these interested parties are usually the parents of children who have been sexually violated and murdered. Critics of sex offender legislation tend to focus on the convicted parties, arguing that their rights have been violated. The Law and Politics of Sex Offender Legislation asserts that these laws are expressions of the deliberative intentions of lawmakers concerned about public safety—they are thus constitutional, if not always wise.
“. . . an audacious, thought-provoking contribution to the very fraught literature on sex offender legislation.”
—Richard Weisman, York University