The Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders
Oxford Handbooks Series

There has been a significant increase in the focus on sex offending in recent years in both the academic and public spheres. From heightened media attention on sex crimes to new waves of legislation aimed at crime prevention, issues related to sexual assault, harassment, and sexual violence have become a top priority in the Western countries. The Oxford Handbook on Sex Offenses and Sex Offenders provides comprehensive, even-handed analysis of the myriad of topics related to sex offenses, including pornography, sex trafficking, criminal justice responses, and the role of social media in sex crimes. Extending beyond the existing scholarly research on the topic, this volume teases out the key debates, controversies, and challenges involved in addressing sex crimes. While most discourse regarding sex offenders either involves prevention and control or, conversely, potential treatment options, this Handbook delves into the psychological, historical, and social contexts related to sex offenses, providing a more holistic view of the topic. The definitive volume on sex crimes and sex offenders, The Oxford Handbook on Sex Offenses and Sex Offenders makes an invaluable contribution to criminological literature.

Part One: Understanding sex crime
. 1. What is sex crime
. 2. Exploring the methods behind sexual violence estimates: The composition and findings from national and international surveys
. 3. The explanation of sexual offending
. 4. Sexual offenders and human rights: protecting victims

Part Two: Types of sex crime
. 5. Rape and domestic sexual assault
. 6. Sexual Homicide and Violent Offenders
. 7. Child Sexual Abuse
. 8. Alcohol and Drugs in relation to sexual offending
. 9. Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Part Three: Offenders ands victims
. 10. Victim - Offender overlap amongst sex offenders
. 11. Female Sex Offenders
.1 2. The Juvenille Sex Offender: Criminal careers and recidivism risk
. 13. A developmental life-course perspective of juvenile and adult sexual offending
. 14. Victimisation and Revictimisation

Part Four: Regulation and control
. 15. Role of Policy in Preventing Sexual Violence
. 17. Sentencing high-risk sex offenders: Policy and legislation
. 18. The aftermath of sex offender registration and other controls

Part Five: Management and intervention
. 19. Risk Assessment of Sex Offenders
. 20. Treatment of Sex offenders: Concepts and empirical evaluations
. 21. Informal Social Control of Sex Offenders: The Family and Other Forms of Support
. 22. Restorative justice and sex offending

Part Six: Social and cultural aspects
. 23. Public Perceptions of Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders
. 24. The media response to sex crime
. 25. The Pedophile in Popular Culture: Fictional Representations of Sex Crime
. 26. Social Media, Cyberspace and Sex Crime: Deviant and Democratising Spaces

Part Seven: Transgression and sex
. 27. The criminalisation of sexuality
. 28. Prostitution and sex work
. 29. Pornography
. 30. Sex trafficking and control

Teela Sanders is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester.