Treatment of Sex Offenders Strengths and Weaknesses in Assessment and Intervention /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Laws, D. Richard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), O'Donohue, William (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Social work.; Clinical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Law and Psychology.; Social Work.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.