Produced in response to the growing international demand for information, this book details the latest research in understanding and controlling violent and sexual offences. Increasing numbers of psychologists are now studying and working with offenders to the advancement of forensic psychology. Chapters cover contributions from ten different countries and are grouped into three sections dealing with risk assessment, sex offenders and offences and violent offenders and offences. The first section discusses the progress that ...
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Produced in response to the growing international demand for information, this book details the latest research in understanding and controlling violent and sexual offences. Increasing numbers of psychologists are now studying and working with offenders to the advancement of forensic psychology. Chapters cover contributions from ten different countries and are grouped into three sections dealing with risk assessment, sex offenders and offences and violent offenders and offences. The first section discusses the progress that has been made towards making accurate decisions about the risk that an individual poses to the community and emphasises the need to draw on both clinical experience and research. The second section explores understandings and investigations of sexual offences including discussion on: American commitment laws for sexually violent predators; the status of "recovered memories" in criminal trials; factors influencing delays in reporting sexual abuse; a model of rapists' accounts of their offences; and situational factors in sexual offending. The final section on violent offenders and offences includes discussion on: criminal careers; domestic violence; mutiliation-murder in Japan; offender profiling; and sentencing of homicide cases. This book will be of interest to scholars in criminology, psychology and forensic psychiatry and to policy-makers and practitioners who deal with sexual and violent offences.
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New. 0415268907. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--304 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Figures * List of Tables * List of Contributors * Introduction 1 * A Risk Assessment 5 * 1 Risk assessment: Review of psychometric measures 7 * 2 Toward a scientific foundation of sex offender risk assessment 23 * 3 Clinical practice and violence risk assessment: Availability of MacArthur risk cues in psychiatric settings 38 * 4 The 'risky' business of child abuse assessment in British Columbia 56 * 5 Assessing and managing risk among mentally disordered offenders in Northern Ireland 67 * 6 Implementing risk assessment procedures in a forensic psychiatric setting: Clinical judgement revisited 83 * B Sex Offenders and Offences 103 * 7 Clinical, legal and ethical issues for mental health professionals in implementing a sexual predator law in the United States 105 * 8 Special legal requirements for competent forensic assessments of questionable 'Recovered Memories' of childhood sexual abuse in criminal trials 123 * 9 Delays in reporting childhood sexual abuse and implications for legal proceedings 138 * 10 Developing a descriptive model of the offence chains of New Zealand rapists: Taxonomic implications 153 * 11 Situational factors in sexual offending 175 * C Violent Offenders and Offences 195 * 12 Violent crime and offending trajectories in the course of life: An empirical life-span developmental typology of criminal careers 197 * 13 Can police prevent domestic violence? 210 * 14 Mutilation-murder cases in Japan 229 * 15 Chasing ghosts: Offender profiling and terrorism 242 * 16 Imprisonment for homicide: European perspectives concerning human rights 259 * Index 281. *--with a bonus offer--
