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Conversations With a Pedophile: In the Interest of our Children  In an effort to show parents how to protect their children from sexual predators Conversations with a Pedophile, through direct correspondence with a convicted pedophile, describes how victims are selected and preyed upon. Dr. Hammel-Zabin details ways to spot early warning signs of abuse and proves that the danger of pedophilia does not come from the stranger in the street offering gifts of candy. It's the nice boy next door, the distant relative, the sweet baby-sitter. It is also shown that our churches aren't safe havens. Nor are our schools or our Scout troops.Author: Amy Hammel-Zabin Hardcover: 237 pages Company: Barricade Books (2003-04-09) ISBN: 1569802475 List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: Used Price: $199.98 Secrets And Shadows: Living with Pedophiles  After learning of her own son's attack by a Pedophile, Lynda Miller became a cop, investigating child molestation cases and diving into the minds of their twisted abusers. After endless cases and a long divorce, she had no idea that when she re-married she would again, fight for the very thing she held dearest, her daughters. Lynda Miller-Perdue offers an inside, true crime look, into the minds of these deadly child predators and gives parents an understanding to the why's and how's, child- sexual abuse takes place. "Secrets and Shadows-Living with Pedophiles"" details real police cases including the riveting case that sent her own husband to prison.Author: L. Miller-Perdue Paperback: 260 pages Company: CreateSpace (2008-07-05) (2008-07-05) ISBN: 1438244185 List Price: $15.99 Amazon Price: $15.99 Pedophiles on Parade (2-Volume Set)  2-Volume Set: Flawed from the beginning, images of sexual actors and events have remained so because America's use of them has traditionally been for entertainment and for the advancement of particularistic political agendas, rather than for the empirically based rational and humane guidance of public policy and personal conduct.Author: David Sonenschein Paperback: 572 pages Company: David Sonenschein (1998-11) ISBN: 0915289024 List Price: $46.95 Amazon Price: $46.95 Used Price: $156.46 Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis  This volume takes a close, dispassionate look at the entire history of the issue of sexual abuse among the clergy, and especially among the Roman Catholic clergy. From the first rumblings to today's headlines, Philip Jenkins has written a fascinating, exhaustive, and, above all, even-handed account that not only puts this particular crisis in perspective, but offers an eye-opening look at the way in which an issue takes hold of the popular imagination. Jenkins reassures us about our local clergy, but also delivers a disturbing message about how vulnerable we are to the news media. Meticulously documented and dispassionately argued, this volume marks a watershed in the discussion of an issue of enormous current interest, one that will not disappear from the headlines any time soon.Author: Philip Jenkins Paperback: 224 pages Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2001-05-17) ISBN: 0195145976 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $3.20 Used Price: $3.00 How to Protect Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers  The Internet has transformed the way people research, shop, conduct business, and communicate. But the Internet and technologies that enable online interaction and access to a variety of content can be a perilous place for minors 8 to 18. The dangers are real, and parents and teachers today are confronted with many threats they simply do not understand. This book shares the risks of the Internet by detailing recent, real-world tragedies and revealing some of the secrets of online activities. It provides a pragmatic approach to help parents and teachers protect children against the threats of going online. Parents and teachers are often ill-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cell phones, and personal digital assistant devices (PDAs) that can facilitate the dangers lurking online. How to Protect Your Children on the Internet offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and exposes the risks they represent. At the same time, it provides a roadmap that will enable parents and teachers to become more engaged in children's online activities, arming them with techniques and tips to help protect their children. Smith underscores his arguments through chilling, real-life stories, revealing approaches people are using to deceive and to conceal their activities online. Filled with practical advice and recommendations, his book is indispensable to anyone who uses the Internet and related technologies, and especially to those charged with keeping children safe.Author: Gregory S. Smith Hardcover: 216 pages Company: Praeger Publishers (2007-08-30) ISBN: 0275994724 List Price: $44.95 Amazon Price: $30.49 Used Price: $26.14 Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents  No descriptive material is available for this title.Author: Ann Wolbert Burgess Paperback: 250 pages Company: Lexington Books (1978-01-28) ISBN: 0669018929 List Price: $44.95 Amazon Price: $40.01 Used Price: $0.01 Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders  What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths about sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our families and ourselves. Author: Anna Salter Paperback: 288 pages Company: Basic Books (2004-03) (2004-03-30) ISBN: 0465071732 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $9.66 Used Price: $8.14 Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother's Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children from Internet Sex Predators  Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled her into this harrowing career and takes readers on the hunt.Author: R. Stephanie Good Hardcover: 256 pages Company: Thomas Nelson (2007-04-03) ISBN: 1595550623 List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $2.49 Used Price: $0.45 Inside the Mind of Sexual Offenders: Predatory Rapists, Pedophiles, and Criminal Profiles  This book is about sexual offenders. Not the ones on television or at your local movie theater. These are real violators engaged in compulsive criminally violent behavior including abduction, serial rape, sexual homicide, necrophilia, and other grotesque acts visited upon a vulnerable American population whose justice system fails to control. That is, this work departs from an antiseptic world of fiction for a frightening glimpse through the eyes of men, women, children who like cross-eyed creatures lurking on a different plane of existence see their wickedness through a mask of sanity. This work contains a full disclosure of three generations of incarcerated sexual offenders, from grandparents to their grandchildren, who committed the most horrendous acts towards others. In fact, there is no way of knowing how many victims this family assaulted, but in the final analysis there are specifics that you will come to understand about them that may change your point of view about that ultimate punishment available to us. The chapter on predatory pedophiles is a case study of three predators ranging in age from 17 to 52. It reveals the realities of pedophiles and explains why most pedophiles are rarely apprehended, and if they are, why they are eventually released from custody.Author: Dennis J. Stevens Paperback: 227 pages Company: AuthorHouse (2001-10-08) (2001-10-08) ISBN: 059520046X List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $9.00 Used Price: $9.34 Hard Candy  Charles Carroll and his brother, Bobby, had the misfortune of being hard-to-place foster children and New Jersey in the 1950s. So the "powers that be" simply reclassified them from "orphan" to "retarded" and exiled them to a state-mental institution. There they remained for nearly ten years, deprived of their civil liberties, devoid of their right to an education, and denied any semblance of a humane existence.Beneath the sanitized facade of the institution's administrative offices and visiting rooms were cramped dormitories and dank basement hellholes. Lazy and inept personnel foisted off supervision of these children to ruthless monitors-children themselves-who maintained order through methods so sadistic and horrific that "child abuse" seems a chillingly inadequate label. Charles was a victim of an uncaring, ignorant, and underfunded system-one that was kept just out of the view of polite society. But the differentiating aspect of Charles's incarceration in this "nuthouse" is the ironic, cosmic hook in this story: he was not nuts. He was, in fact, a sensitive and perceptive child with a normal IQ. Moreover, Charles was consciously and painfully aware of every moment of his own abuse as well as the torment of his mentally defective fellow patients. Enduring their collective plight and clinging to his sanity, as one would a tiny glimmer of hope, he vowed to one day write this remarkable story of survival-not for his sake, but for the sake of society's outcasts and those too helpless to help themselves, then and now. Author: Charles Carroll Paperback: 520 pages Company: Sourcebooks, Inc. (2005-10-30) (2005-11-01) ISBN: 1932783342 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $6.00 Used Price: $4.35 |