... Abstract Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000–2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...

...This chapter examines underage sex work and the emergence of the idea of the erotic child. The idea of child prostitution as a sex crime against children and the framing of the sexual child strengthened state paternalism. Indeed, from the early 1940s, the idea of “sexually endangered” children...

...Sex crimes and sex offenders generate considerable public fear and worry, yet many public perceptions about sex offenders are inaccurate. Links between fear of sex crimes, especially rape, and fear of other types of crime are considered. The essay reviews research on public perceptions of sex...

...The number of juveniles arrested for sex offenses has remained stable over the past quarter century and there are no indications that the behaviors leading to arrests or the likelihood of repetition of sex crime has changed much in the past few decades. Indeed, there is reason to believe...

...This chapter examines the operations and rationale for registration and community notification laws as they relate to juvenile sex offenders. The first section distinguishes between registration and notification as sex-crime prevention strategies, and explores the assumptions about sex offenders...

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...This essay explores the concept of sex crime, placing the discussion within the context of space and time by reviewing the evidence and literature available to scholars. The essay does this by dissecting four issues: (1) the historical and contemporary attitudes towards sexual behavior, including...

...This essay focuses on the media’s response to sex crimes, how news reporting can affect people’s perceptions of sex offenders, and how all of these issues are connected to the development of law. The rate of sex crimes has been steadily declining for the past 20 years, and official rates...

..., and are organized into nine crime types, ranging from minor infractions to capital felonies: (1) violent crimes; (2) sex crimes; (3) white-collar crimes; (4) drug crimes; (5) property crimes; (6) professional misconduct; (7) vehicular offenses; (8) justice-system offenses; and (9) a handful of miscellaneous...

... covering witnesses children as nonsex offenses trends in prisoners incarcerated for vs sex offenses other sexual assaults increase in growth rate of criminal justice policy sex-crime policy sex offenders juvenile courts sexual conduct sexual behavior One clear lesson from our review of Idaho's...

...This essay examines fictional representations of sex crime, focusing on the construction of the paedophile in contemporary popular culture. Representations of sex crime and criminals in film and television have tended to mirror broader societal and social scientific assumptions about the nature...

...This chapter traces the historical emergence of the “sexual deviant” in late-19th and early-20th century sexology and medicine. Notions of both homosexuality and sex crimes took shape during this period, and at the time both were considered part of the same phenomenon. The same body of laws...