Violent and Sexual Offenders: Assessment, Treatment and Management Book

Foreword by Professor David P. Farrington (University of Cambridge) Part I Risk assessment: current perspectives 1. Violence risk assessment, Jennifer Lavoie, Laura Guy and Kevin Douglas (Simon Fraser University) 2. Sexual offender risk assessment: research, evaluation, best practice recommendations, and future directions, Douglas P. Boer (University of Waikato, NZ) and Stephen Hart (Simon Fraser University) 3. Domestic violence and stalking risk assessment, Randall Kropp (British Columbia Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission) Part II Clinical assessment: current perspectives 4. Therapeutic assessment issues to consider with violent offenders, Jane L. Ireland (University of Central Lancashire) 5. Assessing therapeutic needs for sex offenders, Leigh Harkins and Tony Beech (University of Birmingham) 6. Assessing the clinical needs for stalking and domestic violence, Werner Tschan (University of Zurich) Part III Treatment and management: current perspectives 7. Treatment approaches for violence, Jane L. Ireland (University of Central Lancashire) 8. Treatment approaches for sexual violence, Carol A. Ireland and Rachel Worthington (Dept of Psychology, Ashworth High Secure Hospital) 9. Implications for treatment approaches for interpersonal violence: stalking and domestic, Niki Graham-Kevan and Stefanie Ashton Wigman (University of Central Lancashire) 10. In their own worlds: the relationship between thinking and doing for convicted paedophiles, David Wilson (Birmingham City University) and Tim Jones (Birmingham City University) 11. Comparative analysis of the management of sex offenders within the USA and UK, Bill Hebenton (University of Manchester) 12. Challenges of managing the risk of violent and sexual offenders in the community, Tom Considine (University of Huddersfield) and Philip Birch (University of Huddersfield)