SOCB50H3 Study Guide - Sexually Violent Predator Laws, Atrocity Story, Stranger Danger
Document Summary
Author argues that the social construction of predators as sick strangers is an ideological construct, that diverts attention from the fact that male intra-familial violence is by far the greatest threat to the safety of women + children. Emergence of such laws from late 30s was heavily influenced by the media + psychiatric community manipulated public opinion via sensationalizing. Represented a shift from punishment to medical treatment of sex offenders. Statutes fell into disuse with the growing realization that sex offenders did not suffer from any mental illness. Prior to 1990, washington incarcerated all its sex offenders with the general prison population. Washington state s community protection act (1990) predator law . Increasing calls for more drastic solution to sex offender threat. Gene raymond kane rape + murder of woman. Earl shriner rape, assault, + attempted murder of 7yo boy. Earlier triggers ted bundy, green river killer.
