Chapter 2 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Explain the the changing nature of defining deviant sexual behavior
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What is normal sexual behavior?
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What is deviant sexual behavior?
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Who were the early scholars who studied deviant sexual behavior?
Krafft-Ebing (1886-1965)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Alfred Kinsey
What were the major waves of public panic over sex crimes in the US history?
- Moral Hygiene
- The medical concern at the time that sex offending led to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Venereal disease and syphilis were 2 highly prevalent STDs that afflicted a substantial proportion of children at that time
What were some of the most significant sex crimes of early time?
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When did the US start to regulate sexual deviance?
1600-1800s
What is the medical model?
the assumption that abnormal behavior is the result of physical problems and should be treated medically. Sometimes, that is clearly true, as with traumatic brain injury.
What were some of the the early efforts to curb sexual deviance in the nation?
- Making acts such as homosexuality, bestiality, sodomy, adultery, statutory rape capital crimes
- Females relatives would be charged with inspecting the victim for sign of sexual assault
- Male relatives were responsible for apprehending offender
- Females would be charged with other offenses if they made claims of sexual assault
- sex crimes were viewed as un-christain or unspeakable
What was the case of David Reimer?
A Canadian man born biologically male but raised female following medical advice and intervention after his penis was accidentally destroyed during a botched circumcision in infancy (1965)
Lived as a girl until teenage years; transformed back to male
Committed suicide 2004
Medical services to assess and treat abused and neglected children are rooted in the 1968 publication The Battered Child Syndrome by Drs. Kempe and Helfer
Stage 1
What is SVP?
Sexually Violent Predators—-any person who has been convicted of or charged with a sexually violent offense and who suffers from a mental abnormality or personal disorder that makes the person likely to engage in predatory acts of sexual violence
What caused SVP to emerge?
The Case of Wesley Alan Todd
The Case of Earl Schriner
What were the cases of SVP? Earl Shriner?
In 1989, Earl Shriner raped and sexually mutilated a 7-year-old Tacoma, Washington, boy. He ambushed and raped him, cutting off his penis, stabbing him and leaving him for dead in a Tacoma park.
Registering as a sex offender came from where?
Washington state – passed the Community Protection Act
In 1996, New Jersey, passed Megan’s Law
What are the rape shield laws?
- prohibiting evidence relating to the past sexual behavior of the victim being brought into criminal trials (although defense attorneys are still able to find ways to do so)
- Rape shield laws also prohibit the publication of the identity of the victim
- In 1994, Violence against Women Act (a federal law) created the federal rape shield laws
What created the rap shield laws?
1994 Violence against Women Act created the federal rape shield law and other major sex offender legislative reforms during the 1990s and 2000s
Which state first implemented community notification and registration of sex offenders?
Washington
What was the general panic about?
The general panic was about sex fiends, perverts
In 1974 the federal government enacted the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, allocating federal funds to states to help them implement programs to identify, treat and prevent child abuse. `
Stage 2
Substantial refinement and expansion of child protection services and mandated reporting legislation in the states, including the specific inclusion of sexual abuse of minors among the offenses that must be reported.
Stage 3
What were the cases of SVP? Wesley Todd?
Hunted victims at playgrounds
Convicted to have killed 3 boys, tortured them too; Executed in 1993
