The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2003
304 pages
978-0-470-85597-3 (ISBN)
Description
This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from itscompanion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessmentand Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment,it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violentoffenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, andproperty offenders. A range of treatment approaches are alsoincluded, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, angermanagement, school programs, and family-based approaches.
Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, TheEssential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is aconcise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics andresearchers working with offenders across a range of settings.
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Clive R. Hollin
The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment
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09/2003
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Clive R. Hollin is the editor of The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment, published by Wiley.
Content
About the Editor.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Foreword by David P. Farrington.
Chapter 1: To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective(Clive R. Hollin).
PART I: RISK ASSESSMENT.
Chapter 2: Assessing violence risk in mentally and personalitydisordered individuals (Christopher D.Webster and GerardBailes).
Chapter 3: Sex offender risk assessment (R. Karl Hanson).
PART II: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.
Chapter 4: Behavioral approaches to correctional management andrehabilitation (Michael A. Milan).
Chapter 5: Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning andrehabilitation programme (David Robinson and Frank J.Porporino).
Chapter 6: Family-based treatments (Cynthia Cupit Swenson, ScottW. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald).
Chapter 7: Delinquency prevention programs in schools (DavidLeMarquand and Richard E. Tremblay).
Chapter 8: Skills training (Clive R. Hollin and Emma J.Palmer).
Chapter 9: Anger treatment with offenders (Raymond W. Novaco,Mark Ramm and Laura Black).
PART III: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS.
Chapter 10: Adult sexual offenders against women (William L.Marshall).
Chapter 11: The assessment and treatment of sexual offendersagainst children (Tony Ward, Stephen M. Hudson and Thomas R.Keenan).
Chapter 12: Firesetters (David J. Kolko).
Chapter 13: Assessment and treatment:Violent offenders (Devon L.L. Polaschek and Nikki Reynolds).
Chapter 14: Offenders with major mental disorders (SheilaghHodgins).
Chapter 15: Offenders with personality disorders (MaryMcMurran).
Chapter 16: Property offences (James McGuire).
Epilogue.
Index.
