Social Control of Sex Offenders A Cultural History

“Social Control of Sex Offenders is a timely, useful, efficient, easy-to-read book that would be most appropriate for the beginning scholar or informed community member to read. … the book provides a handy reference for refreshing one’s understandings and remembering how and from where our current practices have evolved and emerged. … a book that effectively and efficiently serves the needs of multiple groups of readers, and doing it in a way that is easy and enjoyable to read.” (Richard Tewksbury, Rutgers University, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, March, 2017)

“For those wishing to understand the historical context of sex offender management, Laws’s book is a good place to start. … He traces the history of moral panics and the resulting sex offender management methods back to colonial America, a historical analysis that I have not seen in similar works. Another unusual feature of Social Control of Sex Offenders is a chapter on international methods of sex offender management.” (Philip H. Witt, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (46), November, 2016)