3. Paul Okami and Amy Goldberg, "Personality Correlates of Pedophilia: Are They Reliable Indicators?"
4. See, e.g., Andrew Vachss, "How We Can Fight Child Abuse,"
5. A pedophile is defined as a person who has "recurrent intense sexual urges and arousing sexual fantasies involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children."
6. Mike Smith, "Sex Offender Registry OK'd,"
7. Ann Landers, "There's One Cure for Child Molesters," syndicated column, August 2, 1995.
8. Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker,
9. Tim LaHaye and Beverly LaHaye,
10. "Improving Investigations and Protecting Victims,"
11. Richard Laliberte, "Missing Children: The Truth, the Hype, and What You Must Know,"
12. The death-penalty bill was defeated by one vote at the end of the 1997-98 legislative session, though the incoming Republican governor, Paul Cellucci, promised to pass it in the next term. Bob Curley, feeling used by his political handlers and used up by a life of rage, has retreated to crusade against child pornography and raise funds for child-abuse prevention programs. Abraham, "Life after Death," 30. In 2000, the Curleys brought a civil suit against the North American Man/Boy Love Association and several individuals allegedly associated with it, claiming that Jaynes was a heterosexual before reading the organization's propaganda and that his crimes were "a direct and proximate result of [its] urging, advocacy, and promoting of pedophile activity."
13. Laliberte, "Missing Children," 77.
14. J. M. Lawrence, "Molesters Hide Evil behind Image of the Normal Guy,"
15. According to the FBI, "classic" abductions, in which a child is taken by a nonfamily member more than fifty miles from home, held overnight, and ransomed or murdered, number two hundred to three hundred annually, or 1 child in every 230,000 (as of 1997).
16. FBI statistics, phone interview, summer 1993.
17. Lieutenant Bill D'Heron points out that the case is still open. Phone interview with the lieutenant, of the Hollywood (Florida) Police Department detectives unit, December 15, 1998.
18. Laliberte, "Missing Children," 78.
19. Anna C. Salter, "Epidemiology of Child Sexual Abuse," in
20. See Paul Okami, "'Slippage' in Research on Child Sexual Abuse: Science as Social Advocacy," in
21. Quoted in Bruce Selcraig, "Chasing Computer Perverts,"
22. More than eight times more people were incarcerated for low-level sex offenses in 1992 than in 1980. Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Correctional Populations in the United States," report, Washington, D.C., 1992, 53.
23. Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the U.S.," report, Washington, D.C., 1993, 217.
24. Okami and Goldberg, "Personality Correlates," 317-20. The article is an excellent review of the literature.