sex offenders

When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.

Provides sixteen articles that offer personal, political, and professional perspectives on both sides of the debate about sexual predators, and includes the subject of abuse by authority figures.

Examines the controversies surrounding the sentencing of sex offenders in the United States, exploring the most effective, controversial, and outdated methods of punishing, rehabilitating, and tracking sex offenders in the U.S.

After being released from prison, a young man whose life was destroyed after a liaison with an underage girl agrees to help a university sociologist with his research on homelessness and recidivism among six offenders and the two form an unlikely friendship, until events from the professor's past come to light and cause the young man to question everything he knows.

Contains twenty-five essays which offer varying viewpoints on issues related to sex offenders, such as sex offender policy based on accurate assumptions, effective treatment for sex offenders, registries and community notification, the death penalty, castration, containment, surveillance, and more.

Describes the rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994 and the subsequent development of Megan's Law, which requires that communities be notified when convicted sex offenders move into them; and discusses the arguments for and against such notification.