ABSTRACT
As I am thinking about writing this chapter, I take time out to go to court. An eighteen-year-old boy, my neighbor, is scheduled to be sentenced. He has pleaded guilty to molesting the young girl next door. Her mother has asked for my help. She doesn’t want him to go to prison where he might become a victim himself, but she wants the behavior to stop. “If it were anyone else,’ she tells me, “I would want to string him up. But Ted just needs help.”
