Sexual Offending

Theresa A. Gannon is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Director of the Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychology (CORE-FP) at the University of Kent, UK. Dr. Gannon also works as a Practitioner Consultant Forensic Psychologist specializing in sexual offending and fire-setting for the Forensic and Specialist Service Line, Kent and Medway Partnership Trust. She has published more than 100 book chapters, articles, books, and other scholarly works related to male- and female-perpetrated sexual offending.

• Notes on Editors ixNotes on Contributors xiPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xv1 Emotion, Cognition and Motivation: An Enactive Perspective 1Tony Ward2 The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivational Goals in Sexual Offending: Multi‐Factor Models 17Ross M. Bartels3 Cognitive Explanations of Sexual Offending 35Caoilte Ó Ciardha4 Bridging the Cognitive–Emotion Divide: Empathy and Sexual Offending 53Sarah J. Brown5 Emotions and Sexual Offending 71Nicholas Blagden, Rebecca Lievesley and Jayson Ware6 Motivators, Self‐Regulation and Sexual Offending 89Jill D. Stinson7 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Treatment for Individuals who have Sexually Offended 109Geris A. Serran8 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Future Directions in Sexual Offending 127Theresa A. Gannon and Tony WardIndex 147