Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community Book

List of tables and figures vii

List of abbreviations ix

Notes on contributors xi

Preface xvii

Part I Introduction

1 Paedophilia: definitions and aetiology Karen Harrison Kieran McCartan Rachel Manning 3

2 High-risk sex offenders: issues of policy Mark Farmer Ruth Mann 18

Part II Risk management

3 Effective multi-agency public protection: learning from the research Jason Wood Hazel Kemshall 39

4 The sex offender register, community notification and some reflections on privacy Terry Thomas 61

Part III Treatment and risk reduction

5 An introduction to sex offender treatment programmes and their risk reduction efficacy Sarah Brown 81

6 The use of pharmacotherapy with high-risk sex offenders Karen Harrison 105

7 Restorative justice and the reintegration of high-risk sex of fenders Anne-Marie McAlinden 133

Part IV Special offender groups

8 Female sexual offenders: a special subgroup Franca Cortoni 159

9 Enhancing community collaboration to stop sexual harm by youth Joann Schladale 174

10 Mentally disordered sexual offenders Brad Booth 193

11 Intellectually disabled sexual offenders: subgroup profiling and recidivism after outpatient treatment Joan van Horn Jules Mulder Ine Kusters 209

Part V Social and moral responsibilities

12 Cyber-sex offences: patterns, prevention and protection Majid Yar 229

13 Media constructions of, and reactions to, paedophilia in society Kieran McCartan 249

14 Dignity and dangerousness: sex offenders and the community - human rights in the balance? Bernadette Rainey 269

Index 291