This ‘Essential Handbook’ provides the critical elements from its
companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment
and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment,
it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent
offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and
property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also
included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger
management, school programs, and family-based approaches.
Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The
Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is a
concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and
researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.
companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment
and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment,
it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent
offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and
property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also
included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger
management, school programs, and family-based approaches.
Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The
Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is a
concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and
researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.
€62.95
Table of Content
About the Editor.List of Contributors.
Preface.
Foreword by David P. Farrington.
Chapter 1: To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective
(Clive R. Hollin).
PART I: RISK ASSESSMENT.
Chapter 2: Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality
disordered individuals (Christopher D.Webster and Gerard
Bailes).
Chapter 3: Sex offender risk assessment (R. Karl Hanson).
PART II: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.
Chapter 4: Behavioral approaches to correctional management and
rehabilitation (Michael A. Milan).
Chapter 5: Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning and
rehabilitation programme (David Robinson and Frank J.
Porporino).
Chapter 6: Family-based treatments (Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Scott
W. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald).
Chapter 7: Delinquency prevention programs in schools (David
Le Marquand and Richard E. Tremblay).
Chapter 8: Skills training (Clive R. Hollin and Emma J.
Palmer).
Chapter 9: Anger treatment with offenders (Raymond W. Novaco,
Mark Ramm and Laura Black).
PART III: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS.
Chapter 10: Adult sexual offenders against women (William L.
Marshall).
Chapter 11: The assessment and treatment of sexual offenders
against children (Tony Ward, Stephen M. Hudson and Thomas R.
Keenan).
Chapter 12: Firesetters (David J. Kolko).
Chapter 13: Assessment and treatment:Violent offenders (Devon L.
L. Polaschek and Nikki Reynolds).
Chapter 14: Offenders with major mental disorders (Sheilagh
Hodgins).
Chapter 15: Offenders with personality disorders (Mary
Mc Murran).
Chapter 16: Property offences (James Mc Guire).
Epilogue.
Index.
About the author
Clive R. Hollin is the editor of The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment, published by Wiley.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9780470855973 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Editor Clive R. Hollin ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2003 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2324701 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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