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  title info:
    title: Treatment of Sex Offenders
    sub title: Strengths and Weaknesses in Assessment and Intervention
  name:
    name part: Laws, D. Richard.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: O'Donohue, William.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 348 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 Offend ers will generate discussion and interest among forensic psych ologists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and social workers. .
  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.
  note: edited by D. Richard Laws, William O'Donohue.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Clinical psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Clinical Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Law and Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  classification: RC466.8
  classification: 616.89
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319258683
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25868-3
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    record creation date: 160229
    record change date: 20160302151037.0
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