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Desistance from sex offending : alternatives to throwing away the keys / D. Richard Laws, Tony Ward.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; London : Guilford, c2011.Description: xii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781606239353 (hbk.) :
  • 9781606239353 (Cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.858306 LAW
LOC classification:
  • HV6556 .L39 2011
Contents:
Part I: General Issues:- 1. Introduction. Part 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-- Part III: The Forensic Psychological Perspective:- 7. Do Sex Offenders Desist?-- 8. Sex Offender Treatment and Desistance-- Part IV: Reentry and Reintegration:- 9. Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration--10. Overcoming Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration-- Part V: Recruitment:- 11. The Unknown Sex Offenders: Bringing Them in from the Cold--12. Blending Theory and Practice: A Crimininological Perspective-- Part 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-- Part VII: Where to from Here?:- 16. Dignity, Punishment, and Human Rights: The Ethics of Desistance-- 17. Moral Strangers or One of Us?: Concluding Thoughts.
Summary: This text offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 616.858306 LAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00213770

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: General Issues:- 1. Introduction. Part 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-- Part III: The Forensic Psychological Perspective:- 7. Do Sex Offenders Desist?-- 8. Sex Offender Treatment and Desistance-- Part IV: Reentry and Reintegration:- 9. Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration--10. Overcoming Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration-- Part V: Recruitment:- 11. The Unknown Sex Offenders: Bringing Them in from the Cold--12. Blending Theory and Practice: A Crimininological Perspective-- Part 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-- Part VII: Where to from Here?:- 16. Dignity, Punishment, and Human Rights: The Ethics of Desistance-- 17. Moral Strangers or One of Us?: Concluding Thoughts.

This text offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians.

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