Identifying and Treating Sex Offenders: Current Approaches, Research, and Techniques

ISBN-13: 9780789025067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 306 str.

Robert Geffner

Opis

Covering the latest significant issues and state-of-the-art tools involved in the evaluation and treatment of adult sex offenders, experts discuss diagnoses, classification, public notification, and risk assessment.

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• About the Contributors
  
• INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL ISSUES
  
• Adult Sexual Offenders: Current Issues and Future Directions (Robert Geffner, Kristina Crumpton Franey, and Robert Falconer)
  
• Policy Interventions Designed to Combat Sexual Violence: Community Notification and Civil Commitment (Jill S. Levenson)
  
• Sexual Deviancy: Diagnostic and Neurobiological Considerations (Fabian M. Saleh and Fred S. Berlin)
  
• The Role of Theory in the Assessment of Sex Offenders (Ray E. Quackenbush)
  
• ASSESSMENT AND FORENSIC ISSUES
  
• Boundaries and Family Practices: Implications for Assessing Child Abuse (Toni Cavanagh Johnson and Richard I. Hooper)
  
• Practical Considerations in the Interview and Evaluation of Sexual Offenders (Clark R. Clipson)
  
• The Current Role of Post-Conviction Sex Offender Polygraph Testing in Sex Offender Treatment (Ron Kokish)
  
• TREATMENT ISSUES AND APPROACHES
  
• Treatment of Adult Sexual Offenders: A Therapeutic Cognitive-Behavioural Model of Intervention (Pamela M. Yates)
  
• Sex Hormones, Neurotransmitters, and Psychopharmacological Treatments in Men with Paraphilic Disorders (Fabian M. Saleh and Fred S. Berlin)
  
• Enhancing Victim Empathy for Sex Offenders (Mark S. Carich, Carole K. Metzger, Mirza S. A. Baig, and Joseph J. Harper)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

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Robert Geffner