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Title: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders: Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children by Anna C., Ph.D. Salter, Anna C. Salter ISBN: 0-465-07172-4 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very informative
Comment: As a founder of a corporation dedicated to protecting children from predators and the like, I found this book very helpful. The author is very likeable, and has done exactly what I wanted to do. I think this is a book that parents should read for the protection of not only their children, but themselves as well.
Again, although the topic is not exactly humorous, the author's thoughts are shared at the perfect time that I would be thinking the same things!
Rating: 4
Summary: Facing Reality: Removing the Rose-Colored Glasses
Comment: Gavin de Becker articulates the purpose of this book very well in the summation of his foreword: "Predators gives parents and educators the best kind of defense against sexual offenders: wisdom". It only serves its purpose if the readers take its contents to heart. It was written to create a more conscientious audience. For the general population to simply know more about the issues raised within is a step in the right direction. This book provides knowledge and insight into many groups, including rapists, sadists, pedophiles and psychopaths. She also touches upon concepts like trauma and the techniques predators use to deceive and authorities use to detect deception. Salter has included excerpts from interviews with victims, assailants, inmates, and predators of all walks of life so that readers can get "insight and advice [...] from the 'horse's mouth'"
Salter stressed generally becoming more knowledgeable about the realities of life and our surroundings. She cited researcher Melvin Lerner's book The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion whose work supported her idea that as a society, we think too highly of the world in which we live. She challenges us to remove the rose-colored glasses and look at our societies, cultures, and lives for what they are so that we can begin to deal with some of their faults.
This book is mostly a collection of pieces of information, statements and truths that many of us, on a regular basis, refuse to face. "One in three girls and one in six boys will have sexual contact with an adult."
Most people find it easier to look away or even deny that it exists, but Salter sheds light on what many others attempt to bury. The factual evidence is very difficult to dispute. Salter very effectively presents her points through facts and figures, opinions and examinations. She cites many books, colleagues and studies in an effort to provide readers with the information needed to make informed decisions about the types of people that they allow access to their lives, their homes, and their children. The extent of her research is evident when consulting her 14-page bibliography.
Salter achieves her purpose in this book. She presents her findings creating a slew of facts for opponents to try to challenge. While she does not necessarily make it easier to identify predators, Salter makes us more sensitive to the facts, so that we can address our realities on our own terms. An excerpt from her introduction:
This is not a book with complete and comfortable answers. It will not finish with a checklist for identifying a sex offender.... But if I do my job right, reading this book will make it harder for sex offenders to get access to you or your children.
So that there is no confusion later, Salter attempts to define the problem/s in the first chapter. This is to no avail, because when reading back through the chapter, I find no thesis, only tear-jerking testimonials. Through the body of the book she offers elucidation for readers previously unexposed to the ranks of psychopaths and pedophiles, and in her summation she offers a course of action: suspect any and all.
This book may be difficult for some of the readers in its target audience. Because her research was so extensive, many parts of the book employ very technical language that would prove more useful to her colleagues than it would be to someone outside of the field of psychology. Though she makes a conscious attempt to use laymen's terms in the explanations of difficult topics, her efforts may be in vain; in any case they were almost wasted on me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tragedy
Comment: I had read this book some time ago, but due to the recent events involving the Florida girl I decided to come back here and write this review. This book is an excellent source of information. I wish that everyone, everywhere would read this to gain insight into what is going on around us. We have got to find a way to stop the molestations,rapes,abuse and deaths from happening to our children. As a society we need to read about what is happening to our children. Have a safe guard for the future.
I also want two recommend to other books dealing with sexual abuse-Beauty For Ashes by Joyce Meyer and Nightmares Echo by Katlyn Stewart and then for child abuse-A Child Called It by David Pelzer.
So very angry!!
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Title: Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offenders by Carla, Phd Van Dam, Carla Dam ISBN: 0789007436 Publisher: Haworth (T) Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Prison Blues by Anna Salter ISBN: 0671023535 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: White Lies by Anna Salter ISBN: 0671023519 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Inside the Mind of Sexual Offenders : Predatory Rapists, Pedophiles, and Criminal Profiles by Dennis J. Stevens ISBN: 059520046X Publisher: Authors Choice Press Pub. Date: 08 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Evaluating Sex Offenders by Dennis M. Doren ISBN: 0761921141 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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