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

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.

“...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)

• About the Contributors ixPreface xviAbbreviations xxivPart One Treating and Managing Sexual Offender Risk in Context: Legal and Ethical Concerns 11 Sexual Offenses, Law and Morals: Can Behavior and Attitudes Be Changed by Legal and Moral Efforts? 3Knut Hermstad2 Human Rights and Sexual Offenders 18Bernadette Rainey3 Sex Offenders, Consent to Treatment and the Politics of Risk 38Phil Fennell4 Special Offender Groups and Equality: A Duty to Treat Differently? 63Bernadette Rainey5 Expert Evidence, Ethics and the Law 82Tony Ward6 Ethical Issues in Sex Offender Research 97Tony Ward and Gwenda Willis7 Reintegrative and Disintegrative Shaming: Legal and Ethical Issues 113Anne-Marie McAlinden8 “Castrate ‘Em!”: Treatments, Cures and Ethical Considerations in UK Press Coverage of “Chemical Castration” 129Peter Brown9 Sentencing Sex Offenders: An International Comparison of Sentencing Policy and Legislation 150Karen Harrison10 Sentencing and Crime Policy for Sex Offenders in Japan: The Possible Impact of the Lay Judge System 168Mari Hirayama11 Unique Disadvantages, Unique Needs: Native American Sex Offenders 180Nora V. Demleitner12 Mandated Reporting Laws: Experiences from Israel 201Sheri OzPart Two Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Treatment 21713 Treatment for Adult Sex Offenders: May We Reject the Null Hypothesis? 219Marnie E. Rice and Grant T. Harris14 Ethical Issues in Treating Sexual Offenders: Applying Empirically Based Process Features of Treatment Delivery 236W.L. Marshall and L.E. Marshall15 A Forensic Psychologist’s Involvement in Working with Sex Offenders 251Daniel T. Wilcox16 Punishment and the Rehabilitation of Sex Offenders: An Ethical Maelstrom 271Tony Ward and Chelsea Rose17 Distinguishing Moral and Clinical Decisions in Sex Offender Programs: The Good Lives Model and Virtue Ethics 287Bill Glaser18 Pharmacological Treatment of Sexual Offenders and Its Legal and Ethical Aspects 302Raphaela Basdekis-Jozsa, Daniel Turner and Peer Briken19 Female Sexual Offenders: The Need for a Gender-Responsive Approach 321Sherry Ashfield, Sheila Brotherston, Hilary Eldridge and Ian ElliottPart Three Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Management 33920 A Convergent Approach to Sex Offender Risk Assessment 341Jeffrey C. Singer, Douglas P. Boer and Martin Rettenberger21 Sex Offender Registration in the United States and the United Kingdom: Emerging Legal and Ethical Debates 356Terry Thomas22 A More Ethical Way of Working: Circles of Support and Accountability 372Stephen Hanvey and Mechtild Höing23 Ethical Practice and the Use of the Polygraph in Working with Sex Offenders 388Daniel T. Wilcox24 Sex Offender Civil Commitment: Legal and Ethical Issues 406Rebecca L. Jackson and Christmas N. Covell25 Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: A Systematic Review of the Literature 424Daniel Pacheco and J.C. Barnes26 The Traveling Sex Offender: Monitoring Movements across International Borders 445Terry Thomas27 Hell is Other People: The Importance of Controlling Pedophilic Activity 462Xanthè Mallett and Jann KarpIndex 479