Elissa P. Benedek
With good reason, contemporary American society is preoccupied with themes of violence and sexual aggression in our children and adolescents. Our knowledge, understanding, and empathy prove to be inadequate in explaining the horrific acts we now read about regularly. While I believe that we will never fully understand what leads a child or adolescent to violently aggress sexually, I believe this book goes a long way toward furthering our understanding by reminding us of what we do know as scientists and clinicians and what we have yet to learn. The biopsychosocial forces that combine to produce a sexual predator are complex. This volume brings together contemporary theoretical and clinical thinking on the subject of sexual aggression in a readable and informative manner.
Hans Steiner
This volume is edited by one of the nation's outstanding developmental psychiatrists who is a known authority on sexual aggression. He has assembled an impressive group of clinicians who address relevant topics comprehensively. This is a much needed compendium for those who treat victims and perpetrators of sexual aggression.(Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California)
Dr. med. univ. Hans Steiner
This volume is edited by one of the nation's outstanding developmental psychiatrists who is a known authority on sexual aggression. He has assembled an impressive group of clinicians who address relevant topics comprehensively. This is a much needed compendium for those who treat victims and perpetrators of sexual aggression.
Larry A. Stone
Jon Shaw M.D., and his colleagues have produced an excellent document, an enlightened guide, a meaningful chronicle. Today our number one destructive behavioral and social epidemic is sexual aggression and its prolific ramifications. Yet, we do not anticipate the discovery of a vaccine as a prevention, nor an antibiotic as a cure. Instead, we must strive to comprehend the many variations of our human biopsychosocial components which account for this rapidly expanding and enormously destructive phenomenon affecting so many people and their relationships. Dr. Shaw and collaborators, in Sexual Aggression, bring to all behavioral and mental health clinicians and scientists, whether practitioner, educator, sociologist, criminologist, epidemiologist, or student, a timely, authoritative, and comprehensive review of this modern day individual and societal tragedy.
Markus J.P. Kruesi
Jon Shaw has gone where few dare to tread and has put together a great volume. Solid information on sexual aggression, particularly when the perpetrators are juveniles, is hard to come by. Thus, this book represents a bargain. The references alone are worth the price of the book, because many of the relevant ones won't turn up on an Index Medicus search.
