| View Larger Image | From Victim to Offender: How Child Sexual Abuse Victims Become Offenders | Paperbackby Freda Briggs (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Allen & Unwin | | Page Count: | 192 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 01, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 593,386rd |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Autobiographical stories, written by people who were child victims and became offenders, provide unique insights into the problem of child sexual abuse. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 4 reviews)
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It won't teach you how to stop it or understand it.  1 Stars
January 27, 2003
Graphicly detailing the abuse suffered and administered by these victims turned offenders, this book is definitely not for everyone. This is raw, this is gritty, and WILL NOT do anything to aid in the recovery of a victim, an offender, or their spouses. If anything, such graphic retellings can cause flashbacks and regression... definitely do not read if you are currently in treatment! I envision that the people that most often pick this book up are offenders who were victims, victims that fear becoming offenders, and their parents and spouses... and they are looking in the wrong place. If your intent is to understand offenders, or heal an offender, look at books on sexual addiction-- Patrick J. Carnes is the best in that field. If you are looking to understand a victim or stop the cycle from victim to offender, there are MANY wonderful books out there on victims recovery... and the best way for a victim not to become an offender themselves is to put their heart into their therapy, and also release their anger. The anger and confusion left behind by abuse are the seeds that eventually grow into becoming a sexually abusive individual yourself.
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Just the facts... by Clara M. Fuller (Florence, SC USA)  4 Stars
June 07, 2002
If you are looking for TRUE insight into the minds of sexual offenders, then this is the book for you. The book is a collection of stories from actual offenders in Australia. It is not for those with weak stomachs or hearts. It is for those who truly want to understand how the mind of an offender works. These guys were all in jail where they underwent a specialized treatment program...after the other inmates and staff were educated so the sex offenders could be housed with regular criminals. They are not novelists and nothing is sugar-coated. Some stories are apologies to victims, while others continue to minimize their offenses. Either way, the reader gets an unabridged version of the thoughts of sex offenders, without a lot of psychological, investigative, analytical commentary...just the dark truth.
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Many questions are left unanswered! by Gavin S. Pope (Cedar Creek, Michigan (the GREAT State of))  2 Stars
October 14, 2000
This book offers a series of very graphic and painfully depressingrecollections of child abuse by victims (mostly boys) that eventuallybecame offenders. The graphic nature of these revelations may be toomuch for more sensitive readers. The most shocking revelations do notinclude the means of sexual, physical and emotional abuse that thesechildren suffered through, but the individuals that perpetrated thisabuse and the total lack of any moral or religious impediments totheir behavior.In the case of one of these children, the abuserswere part of the foster care system of Australia (Department ofCommunity Development), i.e., a religious organization that waslicensed by the State to care for children in the foster care system. ...In the case of another boy sent to a boys home, also licensed by theState, this child was subjected to sexual torture that defies the mostdepraved imagination.What this book lacks is answers to some of themost basic questions surrounding child abuse...Why some children whoare severely abused do not themselves become abusers while others doabuse children as adults? Why do some individuals become childabusers who have not been subjected to abuse as children? Are theretreatment regimens for adult child abusers that are indeed successfulor do we need to lock up the abusers for the rest of their lives toprotect our children?In the final analysis this book is basicallyjust a depressing series of recollections by adults severely abused aschildren. ...
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People don't know all the pain that's there  3 Stars
April 04, 1999
This book shows how hurt the victims become, how one moment in a lifetime can ruin a life. It is inspirational and shows how careful we must be with the young children of the world
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