Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior

by Stephen T. Holmes, Ronald M. Holmes

A comprehensive survey of sex offenders and sexual offenses

This succinct and highly accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of sexual behaviors and sex crimes, thoroughly addressing criminal actions from "nuisance" sex crimes, such as voyeurism and exhibitionism, to the most extreme, including rape, sex crimes against children, lust and serial murders, and more. Including unique and engaging case studies and first-person accounts from sex offenders, Sex Patterns and Behavior, Third Edition provides unique insight into sex crimes, deviance, and criminal behavior theory and analysis. This engaging and easy-to-read text provides information on psychological profiling of sex offenders, the crimes they commit, the effects on their victims, and attempted treatments, in an engaging style that compels students to continue reading―even ahead of the syllabus.



Key Features

Intended Audience
Suitably brief to serve as a core text in conjunction with readings or as a supplement to another text, this provocative textbook will spark lively discussion in undergraduate courses such as Sex Crimes, Deviance, Criminal Behavior, and Violent Crimes in departments of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social work, and counseling.

Genres: True Crime

344 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2008

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

In some ways, this is a funny book. It's funny in the antiquated views of the internet and how it actually occurs to readers of today as naive when they know how bad things ended up being. It's a lot like the private ICAC company supporters were a couple years ago. Back in the day, "Daddy Frank" was shockingly bad, and nowadays, "Mac n Cheese" is just about the worst guy that's been seen. (A recent catch also brought a gun, coveralls, physical maps, and a tarp to the staged meet, which has led to speculation that he intended to unalive the kid).

It's also funny in that the work does this weird stamp collecting thing where every possible deviation from normalcy gets its own name and weird inclusion around what'd otherwise be serious coverage of topics. I don't know if this was meant to be comic relief, or what. Regardless it doesn't help this text do its job.

It's also got a lot of the standard goofiness that's to be expected from criminologists in that it says sexual assault is about "power" which nobody could've ever honestly arrived at as a conclusion.

Not the worst of the worst, but pretty standard fare overall, I'd say.

[Heather Shuemaker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative book, but the grammatical errors drove me nuts. I hope the authors get a different proofreader/editor for the next edition! I really enjoyed this class with one of the authors ( Dr. Stephen Holmes) though.

[Maira · Rating 3 out of 5]

all the typo's made me cringe- they need a better editor

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything you want to know about sex crimes can be found in this book.