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Abstract: 

As public awareness and concern about sexual offending have grown in recent years, so too have many new universal and selective crime control policies been directed exclusively at sexual offenders. These include mandatory specialized treatment, community registration and notification, residency restrictions, and civil commitment regimes. These policies seem to be based on assumptions that men who rape or who molest children do so in a planned, specialized, and repetitive way, and that without special incapacitation policies and intensive specialized psychological treatments, they will become more dangerous and prolific in their sexual offending.

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Affiliations:  1: San Jose State University; 2: Griffith University; 3: Griffith University; 4: Brandeis University.