Mary Kay Letourneau Affair : And the Crisis Caused by the Case

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ISBN: 9781585970582 | 1585970581
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/1/2000

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A new look at one of the most widely publicized sexual abuse cases of the 20th century. Why would Mary Kay Letourneau, an intelligent, well educated, married mother of four risk everything -- her family, her career, her very freedom, for an illicit affair with a thirteen year old boy? These question and more are explored in new details.

Mary is going to prison for raping her young lover	p. 1
The court reaction is strange	p. 1
The media coverage is bizarre!	p. 7
What kind of pressure did the judge have?	p. 17
Judge Judy's and other opinions abide	p. 22
Purpose of the justice system	p. 28
Looking at communication and thinking problems in the case	p. 33
Florence Littauer and Gary Smalley give some answers	p. 33
Susan Forward talks about emotional blackmail	p. 40
Dale Carnegie has some wise words	p. 43
Communication is emotional and not logical	p. 45
Differences between men and women in communication	p. 46
Psychology is related to this case and to life	p. 49
There are many types of psychology	p. 49
Positive and negative thinking abound	p. 54
Goals are important to positive thinking	p. 56
Why haven't psychologists written about the Letourneau case and items listed in this study?	p. 58
Mary Kay Letourneau is skillful and smart, but is she in love?	p. 61
Influence and scientific thought	p. 69
The scientific method and how to think	p. 69
Pragmatism is another way to think	p. 72
How influence is used in communication	p. 74
How the prosecution used persuasion in the Letourneau case	p. 76
Using the scientific method to study the Letourneau case	p. 81
Premise-Mary abused Vili for her own sexual gratification	p. 82
The SSOSA program tried to rehabilitate Mary	p. 84
Premise-Mary will be rehabilitated in prison	p. 85
The 2nd degree rape of a child law is biased against women	p. 86
The justice system in Washington State was fair to Mary Kay Letourneau in the Letourneau case	p. 87
Politics are involved when communication is biased	p. 91
A priest made a prediction	p. 91
Steve's problems have been overlooked	p. 95
Mary has an abused background	p. 96
Some items showing adult female/boy sex hard to defend	p. 98
Fallacies of thinking by authorities as shown in the October 1998 news conference	p. 103
The media can't let go because that is how it makes money	p. 113
The argument culture is alive but not well	p. 113
Mary Bell is hounded by the media	p. 119
Bias is involved in high profile cases	p. 121
Problems because of authorities actions in the Letourneau case	p. 127
Arrogance and bias abide where empathy is lacking	p. 127
Is the media the friend of the prosecution?	p. 134
The internet is strong in the media field	p. 138
Possible cures for justice problems	p. 141
The authorities' view of life is wrong as viewed by Jim Cymbala	p. 142
Winning friends seems the way to go according to Dale Carnegie	p. 146
Florence says we need to understand temperaments	p. 148
Emotion in thinking needs to be understood	p. 149
Communication is biased by media and authorities	p. 151
Some other information that may be relevant to the case	p. 154
Bibliography	p. 159
Addendum	p. 161
List of Tables in the Book
Possible agenda or hidden agenda types	p. 8
Examples of ways that pragmatism can be used incorrectly	p. 9
How the case has been biased by the media	p. 11
A look at how the watchdog media has reported this case	p. 16
Other ways the 2nd degree rape of a child law is flawed	p. 18
Some paradigms of justice in question because of the Letourneau case	p. 21
Some of Judge Judy's strong opinions	p. 23
Here are some similar cases to the Letourneau case with somewhat varying results	p. 24
Some circumstances and situations relevant to the Letourneau case	p. 26
Some of the reasons for a justice system and how it should work	p. 28
The Four Personality Types and words that go with them in comparison chart adapted from the books "Personality Puzzle" and "Talking So People Will Listen" by Florence Littauer and Marita Littauer and information from Carl Jung	p. 34
Words used to characterize the temperaments of people	p. 35
How blackmailers use FOG to manipulate in this case	p. 41
A look at the difference between how Dale Carnegie suggests one influences people and how the justice system in the Letourneau case has influenced people	p. 43
Communication differences by sex	p. 46
Various types of psychology theories and their meanings	p. 49
Some typical TA games and their meanings	p. 51
Some problems that came out in the Letourneau case that shows the system has some real challenges	p. 53
How the mixture of psychology and politics has hurt society	p. 59
Types of systems used in business and industry	p. 61
Some things that the experts say are not part of love	p. 63
Why the authorities did not see the relationship as love in the Letourneau case	p. 65
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