Assessment and treatment of sex offenders [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook / / edited by Anthony R. Beech, Leam A. Craig and Kevin D. Browne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910146104103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• ISBN: 0-470-01900-X; 9786612042294; 0-470-71436-0; 1-282-04229-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (612 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BeechAnthony R; CraigLeam; BrowneKevin D (Kevin Dominic)
• Disciplina: 365/.661; 616.8583
• Soggetti: Sex offenders; Sex offenders - Rehabilitation; Sex offenders - Psychology; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Risk assessment; Electronic books.
• 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: ""Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders: A Handbook""; ""Contents""; ""About the Editors""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""1 Overview""; ""2 Attachment Problems and Sex Offending""; ""PART ONE Risk Assessment""; ""3 Factors Associated with Sexual Recidivism""; ""4 The Predictive Accuracy of Risk Factors and Frameworks""; ""PART TWO Approaches to Offender Assessment""; ""5 Sex Offender Risk-Based Case Formulation""; ""6 Psychometric Assessment of Sexual Deviance""; ""7 Measuring Sexual Deviance: Attention-Based Measures""; ""8 The Standardisation of Phallometry""; ""9 Using the Polygraph to Manage Risk in Sex Offenders""""10 ; Assessment of Sexual Addiction""; ""PART THREE Assessments for Specific Populations""; ""11 Decision Making During the Offending Process: An Assessment Among Subtypes of Sexual Aggressors of Women""; ""12 Internet Sex Offenders""; ""13 The Assessment of Treatment- Related Issues and Risk in Sex Offenders and Abusers with Intellectual Disability""; ""14 The Peaks: Assessing Sex Offenders in a Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorders Unit""; ""15 Predicting Risk of Sexual Recidivism in Juveniles: Predictive Validity of the J-SOAP-II""""PART FOUR Interventions""; ""16 Models of Offender Rehabilitation: The Good Lives Model and The Risk-Need-Responsivity Model""; ""17 Modifying Sexual Preferences""; ""18 Advances in the Treatment of Adult Incarcerated Sex Offenders""; ""19 A Community Residential Treatment Approach for Sexual Abusers: A Description of the Lucy Faithfull Foundationâ€?s Wolvercote Clinic and Related Projects""; ""PART FIVE Issues/Interventions for Specific Populations""; ""20 Treatment for Men with Intellectual Disabilities and Sexually Abusive Behaviour""""21 Interventions with Sex Offenders with Mental Illness""; ""22 Working with Sex Offenders with Personality Disorder Diagnoses""; ""23 Understanding the Complexities and Needs of Adolescent Sex Offenders""; ""24 Multisystemic Therapy for Youth with Problem Sexual Behaviors""; ""25 Female Sex Offenders: Issues and Considerations in Working with this Population""; ""PART SIX Policy and Practice""; ""26 Working to Prevent Sexual Abuse in the Family""; ""27 Police Work with Sex Offenders: Detection, Management and Assessment""""28 Community Strategies for Managing High-Risk Offenders: The Contribution of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements""; ""29 Actuarial Risk Assessments in USA Courtrooms""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: A comprehensive resource for practitioners working with sexual offenders. Discusses assessments and interventions, as well as providing a comprehensive literature review There are around 10,000 convictions or cautions for sexual offences in the UK each year; early evidence suggests that treatment programmes can halve re-conviction rates Edited by a University of Birmingham team who are world leaders in researching this area; the subject is of interest worldwide, with strong markets in Canada and New Zealand Includes material on managing offenders with developmental disabilities and thos