Cruel attachments : the ritual rehab of child molesters in Germany /

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Author / Creator:Borneman, John, 1952- author.
Imprint:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241183
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ISBN:9780226234076
022623407X
9780226233888
9780226233918
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 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 treatments are both a legal right and duty - John Borneman offers a fine-grained account of rehabilitation for this criminal type.
Other form:Print version: Borneman, John, 1952- Cruel attachments 9780226233888