| Summary: | This authoritative and comprehensive second edition summarizes and integrates advances in assessing and treating pedophilia and preventing sexual offending against children. It synthesizes current research and offers evidence-based recommendations for practice and policy reform.
"This book represents a critical review and integration of many active lines of research on pedophilia, hebephilia, sexual offending against children, incest, risk assessment, and treatment. It is an accurate, up-to-date and useful resource for lawmakers, criminal justice officials, clinicians, and other stakeholders who are concerned about evidence-based policies and practices in dealing with pedophilia and sexual offending against children. In a sense, there are two books here, one about pedophilia, and a second about sexual offending against children. The book comprises of nine chapters. Chapter one provides definitions of pedophilia and hebephilia. Chapter two describes how pedophilia and hebephilia can be assessed. Chapter three discusses different ways of studying pedophilia and hebephilia, drawing from different populations: self-identified persons with pedophilia or hebephilia, clinical samples, and criminal justice samples of child pornography and contact sexual offenders with child victims. Chapters four and five explore the origins of sexual offending against children and the etiology of pedophilia, respectively. Chapter six talks about incest, a common form of sexual offending against children that surprisingly seldom involves pedophilia. Chapter seven discusses what is known about how to assess risk of sexually offending, a central question for policies and practices. Chapter eight explores different intervention approaches, the latest evidence regarding efficacy, and highlights methodological issues in the evaluation of interventions. Chapter nine summarizes developments in prevention for at-risk individuals, including self-identified persons with pedophilia concerned about the possibility they may act on their sexual interests in children."--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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