Handbook of what works with sexual offenders edited by Jean Proulx, Franca Cortoni, Leam A. Craig, Elizabeth J. Letourneau.

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Other Authors: Proulx, Jean (Professor in criminology) (Editor), Cortoni, Franca (Editor), Craig, Leam (Editor), Letourneau, Elizabeth J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction
  • References
  • Part 1 Theories of Sexual Offenders
  • Chapter 1 Theories That Explain Sexual Aggression Against Women
  • Introduction
  • The Neuropsychology of Sexual Aggressors Against Women
  • The Psychology of Sexual Aggressors Against Women
  • Deviant sexual preferences
  • Lack of empathy, antisociality, and psychopathy
  • Cognitive distortions and implicit theories
  • Intimacy deficits and attachment styles
  • Models of Sexual Offending
  • Ward and Beech's integrated theory of sexual offending (itso)
  • Knight and Sims-Knight's etiological model
  • Lussier, Proulx, and Le Blanc's criminal-pathways model
  • The Massachusetts Treatment Center's rapists typology (mtc:r)
  • Proulx and Beauregard's pathways to sexual aggression against women
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Theories That Explain the Sexual Abuse of Children
  • Introduction
  • Single-Factor Theories
  • Theories of deviant1 sexual interest
  • Theories of distorted cognition
  • Theories of empathy deficits
  • Theories of intimacy deficits
  • Additional single-factor theories
  • Multifactorial Theories
  • Finkelhor's Precondition Model
  • Marshall and Barbaree's Integrated Theory reworked
  • Hall and Hirschman's Quadripartite Model
  • Ward and Siegert's Pathways Model
  • The ITSO
  • The MFM of sexual offending
  • Conclusions
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 3 A Developmental Life-Course View of Sexual Offending: Taking Stock of Research on the Life-Course Development of Antisocial and Criminal Behavior
  • Introduction
  • Criminal-Career Research
  • Value of the criminal-career approach for the study of sexual offending
  • What We Know About Criminal Careers
  • From criminal careers to offending trajectories
  • Developmental Criminology
  • The origins and the development of offending
  • Looking earlier in human development
  • From the study of crime to the study of antisocial behavior
  • The continuity and discontinuity of antisocial behavior
  • Early onset and the search for the life-course persistent pattern
  • From Developmental Criminology to Life-Course Criminology
  • A life-course definition and description of desistance
  • How does change in crime occur?
  • How prevalent is desistance?
  • Conclusions