D. Richard Laws, Tony Ward

Desistance from Sex Offending

Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This science-based book outlines a provocative new theory of (and treatment model for) sex offending. The Good Lives treatment model is derived from extensive empirical research, and is presented here in practical clinical detail.

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This book offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians. The authors argue that most sex offenders are ""people like us,"" with the potential to lead meaningful, law-abiding lives&

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 164mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781606239353
• ISBN-10: 160623935X
• Artikelnr.: 30503930

Inhaltsangabe

I. General Issues
1. Introduction
II. The Criminological Perspective
2. Defining and Measuring Desistance
3. The Age-Crime Curve: A Brief Overview
4. Theoretical Perspectives on Desistance
5. Factors Influencing Desistance
6. Two Major Theories of Desistance
III. The Forensic Psychological Perspective
7. Do Sex Offenders Desist?
8. Sex Offender Treatment and Desistance
IV. Reentry and Reintegration
9. Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration
10. Overcoming Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration
V. Recruitment
11. The Unknown Sex Offenders: Bringing Them in from the Cold
12. Blending Theory and Practice: A Criminological Perspective
VI. Desistance-Focused Intervention
13. The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation: Basic Assumptions,
Etiological Commitments, and Practice Implications
14. The Good Lives Model and Desistance Theory and Research: Points of
Convergence
15. The Good Lives-Desistance Model: Assessment and Treatment
VII. Where to from Here?
16. Dignity, Punishment, and Human Rights: The Ethics of Desistance
17. Moral Strangers or One of Us?: Concluding Thoughts