Sexual Offending
Cognition, Emotion and Motivation
Published on 20. December 2016
192 pages
978-1-118-59253-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sexual Offending presents the latest theory and research relating to the social cognition, emotion, and motivational goals of individuals who have committed sexual offences.
* Explores how individuals who have committed sexual offences perceive the world and themselves, and how understanding this can inform their rehabilitation
* Provides a broad-based view of cognition, and explores the complex relationship between cognition, emotion and associated constructs such as motivational goals
* Integrates recent work on female sexual offenders alongside the literature on their male counterparts, providing researchers and practitioners with a single resource
* A valuable handbook for researchers, practitioners and students concerned with understanding and rehabilitating individuals who have committed sexual offences
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Persons
Theresa A. Gannon is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Director of the Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychology (CORE-FP) at the University of Kent, UK. Dr. Gannon also works as a Practitioner Consultant Forensic Psychologist specializing in sexual offending and fire-setting for the Forensic and Specialist Service Line, Kent and Medway Partnership Trust. She has published more than 100 book chapters, articles, books, and other scholarly works related to male- and female-perpetrated sexual offending.
Content
Notes on Editors ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Emotion, Cognition and Motivation: An Enactive Perspective 1
Tony Ward
2 The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivational Goals in Sexual Offending: Multi-Factor Models 17
Ross M. Bartels
3 Cognitive Explanations of Sexual Offending 35
Caoilte Ó Ciardha
4 Bridging the Cognitive-Emotion Divide: Empathy and Sexual Offending 53
Sarah J. Brown
5 Emotions and Sexual Offending 71
Nicholas Blagden, Rebecca Lievesley and Jayson Ware
6 Motivators, Self-Regulation and Sexual Offending 89
Jill D. Stinson
7 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Treatment for Individuals who have Sexually Offended 109
Geris A. Serran
8 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Future Directions in Sexual Offending 127
Theresa A. Gannon and Tony Ward
Index 147
