D. Richard Laws, Tony Ward

Desistance from Sex Offending (eBook, ePUB)

Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 livesif given a chance and appropriate support. They describe an empirically and theoretically grounded rehabilitation approach, the Good Lives Model, which can be integrated with the assessment and intervention approaches that clinicians already use. Drawing on the latest knowledge about factors promoting desistance from crime, the book discusses how encouraging naturally occurring desistance processes, and directly addressing barriers to community reintegration, can make treatment more effective and long lasting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781606239360
• Artikelnr.: 48028780

Autorenporträt

D. Richard Laws, PhD, Pacific Design Research, Victoria, BC, and Tony Ward, PhD,School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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