Treatment of sex offenders : strengths and weaknesses in assessment and intervention /

Treatment of sex offenders : strengths and weaknesses in assessment and intervention /

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Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Springer Verlag, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (xx, 348 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation.
Sex Offenses -- psychology.
Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11253401
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Other authors / contributors:Laws, D. Richard, editor.
O'Donohue, William T., editor.
ISBN:9783319258683
3319258680
3319258664
9783319258669
9783319258669
3319258664
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 2, 2016).
Summary:"This rigorous survey offers a comprehensive rethinking of the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders for a bold challenge to practitioners. It critiques what we understand about offenders and the mechanisms of offending behaviors, and examines how this knowledge can best be used to reduce offending and relapses. To this end, experts weigh the efficacy of common assessment methods and interventions, the value of prevention programs, and the validity of the DSM's classifications of paraphilias. This strengths/weaknesses approach gives professional readers a guide to the current state as well as the future of research, practice, and policy affecting this complex and controversial field. Included in the coverage: Strengths of actuarial risk assessment. Risk formulation: the new frontier in risk assessment and management. Dynamic risk factors and offender rehabilitation: a comparison of the Good Lives Model and the Risk-Need-Responsivity Model. The best intentions: flaws in sexually violent predator laws. Desistance from crime: toward an integrated conceptualization for intervention. From a victim/offender duality to a public health perspective. A call to clear thought and accurate action, Treatment of Sex Offenders will generate discussion and interest among forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and social workers."--
Other form:Print version: 9783319258669 3319258664
Standard no.:9783319258669
10.1007/978-3-319-25868-3
Table of Contents:
  • Problems in the classification and diagnosis of the paraphilias: what is the evidence that DSM warrants use? / William O'Donohue
  • A brief history of sexual offender risk assessment / Leam A. Craig and Martin Rettenberger
  • Strengths of actuarial risk assessment / Robert J.B. Lehmann, Yolanda Fernandez, and Leslie-Maaike Helmus
  • Risk formulation: the new frontier in risk assessment / Caroline Logan
  • Measurement of male sexual arousal and interest using penile plethysmography and viewing time / Robin J. Wilson and Michael H. Miner
  • Polygraph testing of sex offender / Don Grubin
  • The strengths of treatment for sexual offending / Adam J. Carter and Ruth E. Mann
  • Responsivity dynamic risk factors and offender rehabilitation: a comparison of the good lives model and the risk-need model / Tony Ward and Gwenda M. Willis
  • Early detection and intervention for adolescents at risk for engaging in abusive sexual behavior: a case for prevention / Daniel Rothman
  • Community control of sex offenders / JIll S. Levenson
  • The shortcomings of sex offender treatment: are we doing something wrong? / Pamela M. Yates and Drew A. Kingston
  • Desistance from crime: toward an integrated conceptualization for intervention / Patrick Lussier
  • Changing course: from a victim/offender duality to a public health perspective / John Tabachnick, Kieran McCartan, and Ryan Panaro.

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