Pedophilia Revisited: The Making of a Crime for Justifying Lacking Social Policy (Essays on Law, Policy and Psychiatry, Vol. 7) is an extended study on the controversial subject of pedophilia, the sexual love of adults for children-humans who by legal definition are to be considered a 'child' for the purposes of criminal law.This form of love, also called 'childlove' by those who feel sexually attracted to children, can be exclusive or non-exclusive, but the author's research clearly points to the fact that pedophile attraction is not inborn, just as homosexual attraction is not inborn, but a conditioned response.The study is multi-disciplinary in nature, highlighting the social, sexual, psychological and legal dimension of the problem complex, for arriving at a sound and tenable social policy proposition. The book also reveals a number of the myths that pervade the present public discussion, if there is any at all, with the sobering insight that the response of the public to pedophilia is by no means uniform and monolithic, but can be seen as a matter of various levels of tolerance, based inter alia on various levels of factual information.The author sees the problem of sexual violence against children mainly as a lack of social policy making in matters of adult-child sexual attraction, as a direct consequence of the lacking political will to socially code these relationships. It is because they are not embraced by a social code that they operate in a kind of 'free flow' situation, which always provokes violent, unpredictable and chaotic responses. Hence, the need for arriving eventually at a review of pedophile relations with the lawmaker intending to socially code them and thereby regulate them responsibly.
About the Author: Parallel to an international law career in Germany, Switzerland and the United States, Dr. Peter Fritz Walter (Pierre) focused upon fine art, cookery, astrology, musical performance, social sciences and humanities. He started writing essays as an adolescent and received a high school award for creative writing and editorial work for the school magazine. After finalizing his law diplomas, he graduated with an LL.M. in European Integration at Saarland University, Germany, and with a Doctor of Law title from University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1987. He then took courses in psychology at the University of Geneva and interviewed a number of psychotherapists in Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. His interest was intensified through a hypnotherapy with an Ericksonian American hypnotherapist in Lausanne. This led him to the recovery and healing of his inner child. In 1986, he met the late French psychotherapist and child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto (1908-1988) in Paris and interviewed her. A long correspondence followed up to their encounter which was considered by the curators of the Dolto Trust interesting enough to be published in a book alongside all of Dolto's other letter exchanges by Gallimard Publishers in Paris, in 2005. After a second career as a corporate trainer and personal coach, Pierre retired as a full-time writer, philosopher and consultant. His nonfiction books emphasize a systemic, holistic, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective, while his fiction works and short stories focus upon education, philosophy, perennial wisdom, and the poetic formulation of an integrative worldview. Pierre is a German-French bilingual native speaker and writes English as his 4th language after German, Latin and French. He also reads source literature for his research works in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch. In addition, Pierre has notions of Thai, Khmer, Chinese and Japanese. All of Pierre's books are hand-crafted and self-published, designed by the author. Pierre publishes via his Delaware company, Sirius-C Media Galaxy LLC, and under the imprints of IPUBLICA and SCM (Sirius-C Media).