Treatment of Sex Offenders Strengths and Weaknesses in Assessment and Intervention

Treatment of Sex Offenders Strengths and Weaknesses in Assessment and Intervention / edited by D. Richard Laws, William O'Donohue.

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Laws, D. Richard (Editor), O'Donohue, William (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Clinical psychology.
Psychiatry.
Psychology.
Social work.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

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