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Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant, coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested in costs to both victims and society at large. The long-term psychological impact of sexual assault on adult and child victims has been documented numerous times. The costs incurred by society include a network of medical and psychological services provided to aid victim recovery, the investigation, trial, and incarceration of offenders-often in segregated units or special facilities-and the invisible but tangible blanket of fear that forces potential victims to schedule normal daily activities around issues of safety. Despite the gravity of the problem, there has been a paucity of empirical research directed at the etiology, course, remediation, and management of sexually deviant and coercive behavior. In treating these disorders and in making crucial decisions about how to manage these offenders, clinicians have been forced to rely on their personal experience. Such experience by its nature is unsystematic and lacks the validation that empirical research provides. The lack of sound empirical data addressing the problem is certainly noteworthy, though not surprising. The paucity of research in this area may well be attributable to historical scientific timidity about most aspects of sexual behavior. In 1922 Dr. Robert L.

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9780306462788 | Plenum Pub Corp, July 1, 2000, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant, coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested in costs to both victims and society at large.

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9781461368663 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, September 27, 2012), cover price $79.99

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Hardcover:

9780263160574, titled "Contract Baby" | Large print edition (Harlequin Mills & Boon, May 1, 1999), cover price $22.95 | also contains Contract Baby

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9781449684938 | 2 pap/psc edition (Jones & Bartlett Pub, August 23, 2012), cover price $104.95
9780763772109 | 1 edition (Jones & Bartlett Pub, September 16, 2009), cover price $104.95

Product Description: For nurses, dealing with violence is not an option. Because it's part of life, it's part of their practice. The author takes readers through it all-assault, rape, and homicide-in our streets, our homes, our schoopls, every healthcare setting and even the Internet.

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9781930745001 | Nursing Spectrum, April 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: For nurses, dealing with violence is not an option.

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9780669165593 | Free Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $39.95

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9780028740638 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $26.00

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Hardcover:

9780815300366 | Taylor & Francis, April 1, 1992, cover price $55.00

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Product Description: Book by Burgess

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9780824085285 | Taylor & Francis, February 1, 1988, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by Burgess

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Hardcover:

9780824090494 | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 1985, cover price $25.00

Product Description: Book by Burgess, Ann Wolbert

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9780876194331 | Brady, June 1, 1979, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by Burgess, Ann Wolbert

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