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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139923003321

Titolo

Cognitive approaches to the assessment of sexual interest in sexual offenders [[electronic resource] /] / edited by D. Thornton and D. R. Laws

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : John Wiley & Sons, 2009

ISBN

1-282-34954-6

9786612349546

1-119-95221-2

0-470-74755-2

0-470-74756-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology

Altri autori (Persone)

ThorntonD (David)

LawsD. Richard

Disciplina

364.153

616.85/830072

Soggetti

Sex offenders - Research

Child molesters - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF SEXUAL INTEREST IN SEXUAL OFFENDERS; CONTENTS; About the Editors; List of Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; 1 Penile Plethysmography: Strengths, Limitations, Innovations; 2 The Abel Assessment for Sexual Interests - 2: A Critical Review; 3 Affinity: The Development of a Self-Report Assessment of Paedophile Sexual Interest Incorporating a Viewing Time Validity Measure; 4 Cognitive Modelling of Sexual Arousal and Interest: Choice Reaction Time Measures; 5 The Implicit Association Test as a Measure of Sexual Interest

6 Measuring Child Molesters' Implicit Cognitions about Self and Children7 The Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Test of Sexual Interest in Child Molesters; 8 Assessing Sexual Interest with the Emotional Stroop Test; 9 Comparing Two Implicit Cognitive Measures of Sexual Interest: A Pictorial Modified Stroop Task and the Implicit Association Test; 10 The Startle Probe Reflex: An Alternative Approach to the Measurement



of Sexual Interest; 11 Postscript: Steps Towards Effective Assessment of Sexual Interest; Index

Sommario/riassunto

New for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Approaches to the Treatment of Sexual Offenders describes and evaluates the current methods of measuring sexual interest in sex offenders - namely penile plethysmography, the Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest, Affinity 2.1, the Implicit Association Test, the Stroop test and the polygraph. The book also discusses how established cognitive assessment methods such as the attentional blink and the startle probe reflex can be adapted for use with sex offenders. It therefore brings together in one volume all the latest research an

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828677803321

Autore

Hale J. R (John Rigby), <1923-1999, >

Titolo

Renaissance war studies / / J.R. Hale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Hambledon Press, , [1983]

©1983

ISBN

1-283-20222-0

9786613202222

0-8264-9792-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (623 p.)

Collana

History series ; ; volume 11

Disciplina

355/.02/09

Soggetti

Military art and science - Europe - History

War - History

Renaissance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 The Early Development of the Bastion: an Italian Chronology c. 1450- c. 1534; 2 The End of Florentine Liberty: the Fortezza da Basso; 3 Tudor Fortifications, 1485-1558; 4 Francesco Tensini and the Fortification of Vicenza; 5 The First Fifty Years of a Venetian Magistracy the Proweditori die Fortezze; 6 To Fortify or not to Fortify? Machiavelli's Contribution to a Renaissance



Debate; 7 The Argument of some Military Title Pages of the Renaissance; 8 The Military Education of the Officer Class in Early Modern Europe

9 On a Tudor Parade Ground: the Captain's Handbook of Henry Barrett, 156210 Military Academies ont the Venetian Terraferma in the Early Seventeenth Century; 11 Men and Weapons: the Fighting Potential of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Galleys; 12 Sixteenth-Century Explanations of War and Violence; 13 War and Public Opinion in Renaissance Italy; 14 Gunpowder and the Renaissance: an Essay in the History of Ideas; 15 The True Shakespearean Blank; 16 Printing and the Military Culture of Renaissance Venice; 17 Andrea Palladio, Polybius and Julius Caesar

18 Incitement to Violence? English Divines on the Theme of War, 1578 to 1631Index

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought. The first section of this collection constitutes a major contribution to the study of Renaissance fortifications, their design, planning and execution, and their political as well as their military significance. The second deals with the recruitment and training of officers and men. In the third, contemporary reactions to war are analysed in a variety of social and i