Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders

Leam A. Craig, PhD, MSc, BA (Hons), CSci, AFBPsS, EuroPsy,C.Psychol (Forensic) is a consultant Forensic Psychologist andPartner of Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. He is the holder ofthe European Certificate in Psychology. His current practiceincludes direct services to forensic NHS Adult Mental Health trustsand consultancy to Prison and Probation Services. He acts as anexpert witness to civil and criminal courts in the assessment ofsexual and violent offenders. he coordinates community-basedtreatment programmes for sexual offenders with learningdisabilities in NHS and probation settings and acts as a consultantto private forensic learning disability units. He has publishednumerous empirical articles and chapters in a range of researchprofessionals journals. He has recently completed a book withProfessors Anthony Beech and Kevin Browne entitled Assessmentand treatment of Sex Offenders: A Handbook, and is currentlyworking on Assessment and treatment of Sexual Offenders withIntellectual disabilities: A Handbook, Wiley-Blackwell, withProfessors Kevin Browne and William Lindsay. He is an honorarymember of the teaching and research staff at the centre forForensic and family Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. Kevin D. Browne, PhD, MSc, MEd, BSc, C.Biol, C.Psychol(Foresnic) is both a chartered Biologist and Chartered Psychologistemployed by the University of Liverpool as Chair of Forensic andChild Psychology and Head of the World Health OrganisationCollaboration Centre on child Care and Protection in the UK. He hasbeen researching family violence and child maltreatment for 30years and has published extensively on the prevention of violenceto children, acting as Co-Editor (with Prof. M.A. Lynch) of'Child Abuse Review' from 1992 to 1999. After 12 years as anExecutive Councilor of the International Society for Prevention ofChild Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) he is now consultant to theEuropean Commission, UNICEF, World Bank and the WHO. He has workedand presented in over 50 countries worldwide and is currentlyleading an EU/WHO investigation on the extent of earlyinstitutional care and its detrimental effects on childdevelopment. this involves training and capacity building todinstitutionalise and transform children's services across Europe.recently, he was a consultant and contributing author to the UNSecretary General's World Report on Violence to Children(published in October 2006). His other co-authored Wiley booksinclude, Preventing Family Violence (1997), EarlyPrediction and Prevention of Child Abuse: A Handbook (2002),and most recently Community Health Approach to the Assessment ofInfants and their Parents (2006). Anthony R. Beech, D. Phil, BSc, FBPsS, C.Psychol(Forensic) is Professor of Criminological Psychology and Directorof Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, University ofBirmingham. he has published widely on the assessment and treatmentof sexual offenders and is the principal researcher on the SexOffender treatment Evaluation Project (STEP) team that has examinedthe effectiveness of treatment for sex offenders provided in UKprisons and probation services. His work is regarded as having amajor influence on assessment and treatment in the UK. He hasrecently completed a book with Professor Tony Ward and Dr DevonPolaschek entitled Theories of Sexual Offending, J. Wiley& Sons, and with Dr Leam Craig and Professor Kevin Browne,Assessment and treatment of Sex Offenders: A Handbook,Wiley-Blackwell.