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Forensic Management of Sexual Offenders
Prentky, Robert Alan; Burgess, Ann Wolbert
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Description for Forensic Management of Sexual Offenders
Hardback. Reviews advances in the management of human sexual aggression. This work is intended to reflect what is known and what is not known about the effective management practices and strategies for sexual offenders. It includes complete discussions of classification, assessment, and prediction. Series: Perspectives in Sexuality. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JM; L; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1940.
Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant, coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested in costs to both victims and society at large. The long-term psychological impact of sexual assault on adult and child victims has been documented numerous times. The costs incurred by society include a network of medical and psychological services provided to aid victim recovery, the investigation, trial, and incarceration of offenders-often in segregated units or special facilities-and the invisible but tangible blanket of fear that forces potential victims to schedule normal daily activities around issues of ... Read more
Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant, coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested in costs to both victims and society at large. The long-term psychological impact of sexual assault on adult and child victims has been documented numerous times. The costs incurred by society include a network of medical and psychological services provided to aid victim recovery, the investigation, trial, and incarceration of offenders-often in segregated units or special facilities-and the invisible but tangible blanket of fear that forces potential victims to schedule normal daily activities around issues of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Sexuality
Number of Pages
331
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306462788
SKU
V9780306462788
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Reviews for Forensic Management of Sexual Offenders
`...an important contribution to the field... The book is well written and full of gems that will be helpful to both students and experienced practitioners in forensic social work and foresic psychology or psychiatry as well as to personnel in the criminal justice system, from police sexual assault investigators to members of the judiciary.' ... Read more