Adobe DRM
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 those with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
* 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 those with Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
€55.99
Table of Content
About the Editors.List of Contributors.
Foreword.
INTRODUCTION.
1. Overview (Anthony R. Beech, Leam A. Craig and Kevin D.Browne).
2. Attachment Problems and Sex Offending (Jackie Craissati).
PART ONE: RISK ASSESSMENT.
3. Factors Associated with Sexual Recidivism (Franca Cortoni).
4. The Predictive Accuracy of Risk Factors and Frameworks(Leam A. Craig, Anthony R. Beech and Leigh Harkins).
PART TWO: APPROACHES TO OFFENDER ASSESSMENT.
5. Sex Offender Risk-Based Case Formulation (Douglas P. Boer, Jo Thakker and Tony Ward).
6. Psychometric Assessment of Sexual Deviance (Leam A. Craigand Anthony R. Beech).
7. Measuring Sexual Deviance: Attention-Based Measures(Carmen L.Z. Gress and D. Richard Laws).
8. The Standardisation of Phallometry (Yolanda Fernandez).
9. Using the Polygraph to Manage Risk in Sex Offenders (Don Grubin).
10. Assessment of Sexual Addiction (Liam E. Marshall and Matt D. O’Brien).
PART THREE: ASSESSMENTS FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS.
11. Decision Making During the Offending Process: An Assessment Among Subtypes of Sexual Aggressors of Women (Jean Proulx and Eric Beauregard).
12. Internet Sex Offenders (David Middleton).
13. The Assessment of Treatment-Related Issues and Risk in Sex Offenders and Abusers with Intellectual Disability (William R.Lindsay and John L. Taylor).
14. The Peaks: Assessing Sex Offenders in a Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorders Unit (Todd E. Hogue).
15. Predicting Risk of Sexual Recidivism in Juveniles:Predictive Validity of the J-SOAP-II (Robert A. Prentky, Ann Pimental, Deborah J. Cavanaugh and Sue Righthand).
PART FOUR: INTERVENTIONS.
16. Models of Offender Rehabilitation: The Good Lives Model andthe Risk-Need-Responsivity Model (Tony Ward, Rachael M. Collieand Patrice Bourke).
17. Modifying Sexual Preferences (William. L. Marshall, Matt D. O’Brien and Liam E. Marshall).
18. Advances in the Treatment of Adult Incarcerated Sex Offenders (Ruth E. Mann and William L. Marshall).
19. A Community Residential Treatment Approach for Sexual Abusers: A Description of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s Wolvercote Clinic and Related Projects (Hilary Eldridge and Donald Findlater).
PART FIVE: ISSUES/INTERVENTIONS FOR SPECIFICPOPULATIONS.
20. Treatment for Men with Intellectual Disabilities and Sexually Abusive Behaviour (Glynis Murphy and Neil Sinclair).
21. Interventions with Sex Offenders with Mental Illness(Tanya Garrett and Brian Thomas-Peter).
22. Working with Sex Offenders with Personality Disorder Diagnoses (Lawrence Jones).
23. Understanding the Complexities and Needs of Adolescent Sex Offenders (Phil Rich).
24. Multisystemic Therapy for Youth with Problem Sexual Behaviors (Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Charles M. Borduin and Cindy M. Schaeffer).
25. Female Sex Offenders: Issues and Considerations in Workingwith this Population (Hannah J. Ford).
PART SIX: POLICY AND PRACTICE.
26. Working to Prevent Sexual Abuse in the Family (Kevin D.Browne).
27. Police Work with Sex Offenders: Detection, Management and Assessment (Kevin D. Browne).
28. Community Strategies for Managing High-Risk Offenders: The Contribution of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements(Hazel Kemshall and Jason Wood).
29. Actuarial Risk Assessments in USA Courtrooms (Dennis M.Doren).
Index.
About the author
Anthony R. Beech, D.Phil, FBPs S, C.Psychol (Forensic)is Professor of Criminological Psychology at the University of
Birmingham.
Leam A. Craig, Ph D, MSc, CSci, AFBPs S, Euro Psy
C.Psychol(Forensic) is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist and
Partner at Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd.
Kevin D. Browne, Ph.D., M.Ed., M.Sc., C.Psychol.
(Forensic), C.Biol. is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Child
Health and Director of Education in the Institute of Work, Health
and Organisations (I-WHO), University of Nottingham.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 610 ● ISBN 9780470727270 ● File size 6.4 MB ● Editor Anthony R. Beech & Leam A. Craig ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2009 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2323311 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
Requires a DRM capable ebook reader
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
71,798 Ebooks in this category
