UNMASKING THE SEXUAL OFFENDER

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION I: The Offender's Best Weapon: Society as the Audience to the Offense -- 1. The Co-Defendants: The Role of the Audience to a Sexual Offense -- The Role of the Audience in the Facilitation of Sexual Violence -- Societal Building Blocks for Construction of a Good Offense -- Summary -- 2. Weaponized Humanity: Why We Offer Denial and Disbelief to Offenders -- Biases - Constructs of Complacency -- The Need to Be "Good" -- Our Narcissism -- Misapplied Social Rules and Understanding of Deception -- Confused by "Counterintuitive" Behavior -- Need for Ideal Victims -- Summary -- 3. Myth-Information: Our Misinformed Beliefs about Sexual Offenders -- Not Always Monsters - The Insidious Normalcy of the Sex Offender -- The Mythos of False Allegations -- "Boys Will Be Boys" and Myth of the Unmanageable Arousal -- "The Devil Made Him Do It" - The Fable of "It Wasn't Me" -- The Fiction of Low Self-Esteem, Immaturity, or Sexual Deprivation -- "He Is Crazy/Sick/Sex Addicted" - The Myth of Mental Illness and Sexual Offending -- "That's Not His Type" - The Problem with Typologies -- "Hurt People Hurt People" - The Problem of the Victimized Victimizer -- Myth: Consent Is Too Complicated -- Summary -- 4. "I Know Him - He's Not Like That": The Struggle to Believe -- Public, Private, and Secret Selves -- "Stranger Danger" Myth - The Impact of a Relationship on Denial -- "He's Good Down Deep!" - All or Nothing Thinking -- Summary -- 5. The Theater of Sexual Assault: The Act versus the Production -- Deviance: Criminogenic or Sexual Needs -- The Stages of Criminal Behavior - Modified -- Mistakes in Understanding Offenses and Offenders -- Summary -- SECTION II: Unmasking the Sex Offender -- 6. Defining Deviance: The Pathway to Offending.