The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sex Offender Treatment and Management

Herausgegeben von Harrison, Karen; Rainey, Bernadette

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For academics, practitioners, charity workers, and policy makers in the fields of sex offender treatment and management, this volume addresses the importance of legal and ethical issues in sex offender treatment. The text collates a number of important theories discussed during the 2010 International Association for the Treatment of Sex Offenders conference and combines them with contributions from other important and leading academics in this field. The diverse international cast of contributors includes leaders in the field, and contributions cover the gamut of legal and ethical concerns in sex offender treatment.

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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, Netherlands, Japan, and Israel
Includes perspectives from respected leading academics and practitioners, including William Marshall, Tony Ward, Doug Boer, Daniel Wilcox, and Marnie Rice

Produktdetails

• Wiley Clinical Psychology Handbooks
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9781119945550
• ISBN-10: 1119945550
• Artikelnr.: 36901440

Autorenporträt

Karen Harrison is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Hull, UK. She has published several articles on the use of pharmacotherapy with high-risk sex offenders, is the author of Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders (2011) and is the editor of Managing High-Risk Sex Offenders in The Community (2010). Dr Harrison is an editorial board member of the Journal of Sexual Aggression and the Prison Service Journal as well as associate editor of Sexual Offender Treatment. Bernadette Rainey is a Lecturer at Cardiff Law School, UK, and the Director of the Cardiff Law School Centre for Human Rights and Public Law. She has published work on several areas of human rights law, including equality duties and sexual offenders.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors ix Preface xvi Abbreviations xxiv Part One Treating
and Managing Sexual Offender Risk in Context: Legal and Ethical Concerns 1
1 Sexual Offenses, Law and Morals: Can Behavior and Attitudes Be Changed by
Legal and Moral Efforts? 3 Knut Hermstad 2 Human Rights and Sexual
Offenders 18 Bernadette Rainey 3 Sex Offenders, Consent to Treatment and
the Politics of Risk 38 Phil Fennell 4 Special Offender Groups and
Equality: A Duty to Treat Differently? 63 Bernadette Rainey 5 Expert
Evidence, Ethics and the Law 82 Tony Ward 6 Ethical Issues in Sex Offender
Research 97 Tony Ward and Gwenda Willis 7 Reintegrative and Disintegrative
Shaming: Legal and Ethical Issues 113 Anne-Marie McAlinden 8 "Castrate
'Em!": Treatments, Cures and Ethical Considerations in UK Press Coverage of
"Chemical Castration" 129 Peter Brown 9 Sentencing Sex Offenders: An
International Comparison of Sentencing Policy and Legislation 150 Karen
Harrison 10 Sentencing and Crime Policy for Sex Offenders in Japan: The
Possible Impact of the Lay Judge System 168 Mari Hirayama 11 Unique
Disadvantages, Unique Needs: Native American Sex Offenders 180 Nora V.
Demleitner 12 Mandated Reporting Laws: Experiences from Israel 201 Sheri Oz
Part Two Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Treatment 217 13 Treatment for
Adult Sex Offenders: May We Reject the Null Hypothesis? 219 Marnie E. Rice
and Grant T. Harris 14 Ethical Issues in Treating Sexual Offenders:
Applying Empirically Based Process Features of Treatment Delivery 236 W.L.
Marshall and L.E. Marshall 15 A Forensic Psychologist's Involvement in
Working with Sex Offenders 251 Daniel T. Wilcox 16 Punishment and the
Rehabilitation of Sex Offenders: An Ethical Maelstrom 271 Tony Ward and
Chelsea Rose 17 Distinguishing Moral and Clinical Decisions in Sex Offender
Programs: The Good Lives Model and Virtue Ethics 287 Bill Glaser 18
Pharmacological Treatment of Sexual Offenders and Its Legal and Ethical
Aspects 302 Raphaela Basdekis-Jozsa, Daniel Turner and Peer Briken 19
Female Sexual Offenders: The Need for a Gender-Responsive Approach 321
Sherry Ashfi eld, Sheila Brotherston, Hilary Eldridge and Ian Elliott Part
Three Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Management 339 20 A Convergent
Approach to Sex Offender Risk Assessment 341 Jeffrey C. Singer, Douglas P.
Boer and Martin Rettenberger 21 Sex Offender Registration in the United
States and the United Kingdom: Emerging Legal and Ethical Debates 356 Terry
Thomas 22 A More Ethical Way of Working: Circles of Support and
Accountability 372 Stephen Hanvey and Mechtild Höing 23 Ethical Practice
and the Use of the Polygraph in Working with Sex Offenders 388 Daniel T.
Wilcox 24 Sex Offender Civil Commitment: Legal and Ethical Issues 406
Rebecca L. Jackson and Christmas N. Covell 25 Sex Offender Residence
Restrictions: A Systematic Review of the Literature 424 Daniel Pacheco and
J.C. Barnes 26 The Traveling Sex Offender: Monitoring Movements across
International Borders 445 Terry Thomas 27 Hell is Other People: The
Importance of Controlling Pedophilic Activity 462 Xanthè Mallett and Jann
Karp Index 479

Rezensionen

"However, the book is an important collection of thought-provoking essays that stimulate and challenge policy makers, academics and practice-based readers." (The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 5 January 2015)

"This comprehensive collection of chapters from a stellar cast of contributors clearly fills a gap in the literature and brings together some genuinely international thinking . " (Prison Service Journal, 1 July 2013)