Treatment of Sex Offenders Strengths and Weaknesses in Assessment and Intervention /
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 offe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Problems in diagnosis
- Problems in classification: major vs. minor paraphilias
- A brief history of risk assessment
- Strengths of risk assessment
- Weaknesses of risk assessment
- Community control of sex offenders
- Phallometry vs. viewing time
- Polygrtaphy in the treatment of sex offenders
- Shortcomings of sex offender treatment
- Two models: Risk-Need-Responsibility (RNR) vs. Good Lives Model (GLM)
- Desistance-focused rehabilitation of sex offenders
- The strengths of sex offender treatment
- Civil commitment of "sexual predators"
- Prevention of sex offending: the public health approach
- Early detection: the case for juvenile sex offender treatment
- Summary and conclusions.
