Abstract
This chapter provides the historical development and evolution of sexually violent predator laws. It was in the 1930s that the United States began to enact statutes designed to lower sex offense rates, laws that were then called 'sexual psychopath' statutes. The first such law was passed in Michigan in 1937, although promptly declared unconstitutional. By the 1970s a majority of the states had enacted such laws, broadly referred to by then as 'mentally disordered sex offender' (MDSO) laws. The chapter also provides summaries of similar laws in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
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Witt, P. H., & DeMatteo, D. (2019). Sexually Violent Predator Laws: Historical Development and Evolution. In Sexually Violent Predators: A Clinical Science Handbook (pp. 9–20). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04696-5_2
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