Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger management, school programs, and family-based approaches. Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is a concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-09-16
Mått:170 x 244 x 18 mm
Vikt:535 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780470854365

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Clive R. Hollin is the editor of The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment, published by Wiley.

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“…concise and accessible…I would recommend this book to the target readership…” (Vista, Vol.9, No.2, 2005)

Innehållsförteckning

About the Editor. List of Contributors.Preface.Foreword by David P. Farrington.Chapter 1: To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective (Clive R. Hollin).PART I: RISK ASSESSMENT.Chapter 2: Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality disordered individuals (Christopher D.Webster and Gerard Bailes).Chapter 3: Sex offender risk assessment (R. Karl Hanson).PART II: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.Chapter 4: Behavioral approaches to correctional management and rehabilitation (Michael A. Milan).Chapter 5: Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning and rehabilitation programme (David Robinson and Frank J. Porporino).Chapter 6: Family-based treatments (Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Scott W. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald).Chapter 7: Delinquency prevention programs in schools (David LeMarquand and Richard E. Tremblay).Chapter 8: Skills training (Clive R. Hollin and Emma J. Palmer).Chapter 9: Anger treatment with offenders (Raymond W. Novaco, Mark Ramm and Laura Black).PART III: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS.Chapter 10: Adult sexual offenders against women (William L. Marshall).Chapter 11: The assessment and treatment of sexual offenders against children (Tony Ward, Stephen M. Hudson and Thomas R. Keenan).Chapter 12: Firesetters (David J. Kolko).Chapter 13: Assessment and treatment:Violent offenders (Devon L. L. Polaschek and Nikki Reynolds).Chapter 14: Offenders with major mental disorders (Sheilagh Hodgins).Chapter 15: Offenders with personality disorders (Mary McMurran).Chapter 16: Property offences (James McGuire).Epilogue.Index.