Leam A. Craig & William R. Lindsay 
Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities 
A Handbook

A practical handbook for practitioners that covers the assessment, treatment and management of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities – an area of growing interest within clinical forensic psychology.

* New for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology: a practical handbook that covers the assessment, treatment and management of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities

* Summarises the research literature on the characteristics and prevalence of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities

* Discusses risk assessment and innovations in treatment and management

* Includes contributors world-renowned in the field of assessment and treatment of sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities such as Tony Ward, Glynis Murphy, and Douglas Boer

Table of Content

About the Editors.

Contributors.

Foreword.

Acknowledgements.

PART ONE INTRODUCTION.

1. Overview and Structure of the Book (Leam A. Craig, William
R. Lindsay and Kevin D. Browne).

2. Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities:
Characteristics and Prevalence (Leam A. Craig and William R.
Lindsay).

3. Developmental Pathways in Intellectually Disabled Sexual
Offenders (Susan C. Hayes).

4. Adolescents with Intellectual Disability and Family Sexual
Abuse (Kevin D. Browne and Michelle Mc Manus).

5. Applying the Self-Regulation Model to Sexual Offenders with
Intellectual Disabilities (Lynne Eccleston, Tony Ward and Barry
Waterman).

PART TWO DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT AND COMORBIDITY.

6. Psychiatric Illness, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and
Risk (Fabian Haut and Eleanor Brewster).

7. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders in People with
Intellectual Disabilities (Dorothy M. Griffiths, Paul Fedoroff
and Deborah Richards).

PART THREE RISK ASSESSMENT.

8. Assessing Recidivism Risk in Sex Offenders with Intellectual
Disabilities (William R. Lindsay and John L. Taylor).

9. Psychopathy and other Personality Disorders in Sexual
Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities (Catrin
Morrissey).

10. Suggested Adaptations to the HCR-20 for Offenders with
Intellectual Disabilities (Douglas P. Boer, Matthew Frize, Ruth
Pappas, Catrin Morrissey and William R. Lindsay).

11. Suggested Adaptations to the SVR-20 for Offenders with
Intellectual Disabilities (Douglas P. Boer, Matthew Frize, Ruth
Pappas, Catrin Morrissey and William R. Lindsay).

PART FOUR ASSESSING TREATMENT NEED AND DEVIANCY.

12. Psychometric Assessment of Sexual Deviancy in Sexual
Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities (Leam A. Craig and
William R. Lindsay).

13. Assessing Treatment Need in Sexual Offenders with
Intellectual Disabilities (Peter E. Langdon and Glynis H.
Murphy).

PART FIVE PROVISIONS AND TREATMENT.

14. Staff Support and Development when Working with Sexual
Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities (Shawn Mosher).

15. Community-Based Treatment Programmes for Sex Offenders with
Intellectual Disabilities (William R. Lindsay, Amanda M. Michie
and Frank Lambrick).

16. The Treatment of Intellectually Disabled Sexual Offenders in
the National Offender Management Service: The Adapted Sex Offender
Treatment Programmes (Fiona Williams and Ruth E. Mann).

17. Journeying to Wise Mind: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and
Offenders with an Intellectual Disability (Marleen
Verhoeven).

PART SIX FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

18. Improving Service Provision for Intellectually Disabled
Sexual Offenders (Hannah Ford and John Rose).

Index.

About the author

Leam A. Craig is a Consultant Forensic Psychologist and
Partner at Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. He has published
numerous research chapters, articles and books on the assessment
and treatment of sexual offenders. He is also an Honorary Senior
Research Fellow, University of Birmingham.

William R. Lindsay is Lead Clinician in Scotland for
Castlebeck Care and Chair of Learning Disabilities and
Forensic Psychology at the University of Abertay, Dundee. He has
contributed to more than 200 academic publications.

Kevin D. Browne is Professor of Forensic Psychology and
Child Health at the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations at
the University of Nottingham. He is also a consultant to
UNICEF and Head of the World Health Organisation Collaborating
Centre on Child Care and Protection in the UK.