Understanding and addressing adult sexual attraction to children a study of paedophiles in contemporary society /

• Main Author: Goode, Sarah D.
• Corporate Author: Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge : Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2010.
• Subjects: Pedophilia.; Child sexual abuse.; Child molesters.; PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.; PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.; MEDICAL > Mental Health.; Electronic books.
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This groundbreaking book explores what can be done to stop paedophilia, seeking a new understanding of it in order to better prevent child sexual abuse and making use of case studies and primary interview-data.

Table of Contents:

• Understanding paedophiles
• Paedophiles online
• Setting up the "minor attracted adults" daily lives project
• Running the "minor attracted adults" daily lives project
• Findings from the minor-attracted adults daily lives research
• Constructing and negotiating identities
• Attraction and fantasies
• Experiences of support
• Debate and dissent within the online paedophile community
• What stops adults preventing the abuse of children?
• Addressing adult sexual attraction to children.