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Article: Sexual Assault: The Victims, the Perpetrators, and the Criminal Justice System.(Book Review)
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- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Sexual Assault: The Victims, the Perpetrators, and the Criminal Justice System, edited by Frances P. Reddington, Ph.D., and Betsy Wright Kreisel, Ph.D., Carolina Academic Press, 2005, 353 pp.
The no-nonsense title for this book indicates to the reader what to expect as the book unfolds. The editors have decided to take on the all encompassing topic of sexual assault and deal with it in a systematic and factual manner. The editors have broken down the issue of sexual assault into six areas of research and discussion. These areas include: the crime, the victim, the often unacknowledged victim, the offender, the criminal justice system, and public fear and the ...