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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877058003321

Titolo

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

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

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 Foundation�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