Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive and user-friendly guide on those offenders who are often assessed as being dangerous.

Outlining, evaluating and commenting on specific methods, regimes and strategies for dealing with dangerous offenders throughout each chapter, this book begins by considering what a dangerous offender is and providing a brief historical account of how the label has been used for different types of offender over the last three or four centuries.

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This handbook combines the latest theory on a high-profile, complex subject in criminology, exploring the legal and ethical dimensions of society's response to sex offenders in jurisdictions from the USA to Japan.

• The first publication to offer a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of legal and ethical issues relating to sex offender treatment and management
• Covers a range of related issues, from media coverage to equality duties
• Presents research from numerous national jurisdictions including the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Germany,...

Sex offenders, and in particular paedophiles, have been the subject of political and media attention, and there have been intensive debates about the best way of dealing with them. This book explores these issues, It evaluates the measures including drug treatment, MAPPA, the use of the Sex Offender Register, and satellite-tracking technology.