Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment

by Hollin, Clive R.

• ISBN13: 9780471988588
• ISBN10: 0471988588
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

There is growing need to base the rehabilitation, prison regimes and treatment of offenders with special needs on research based methods and experience.This authoritative handbook will help you provide care for such offenders which is effective,humane and related o individual organisational and social considerations - whether based in community,residential prison or secure hospital settings. The Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment provides a comprehensive guide to the whole range of approaches to treatment, including behavioural/cognitive,family work, reasoning and rehabilitation,and anger management.It goes on to examine the assessment of various categories of offenders such as child abusers,violent,mentally disordered offenders and sex offenders,and also looks a different ypes of reatment settings -in prisons,maximum security hospitals,residential settings and in the community. ESSENTIAL RESOURCE THAT PROVIDES... - Editor and contributors with wide-ranging understanding and extensive expertise in the field of offender treatment. - A single-volume,authoritative,comprehensive and international reference.

Author Biography

Clive Hollin, University of Leicester, UK.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	xi
List of Contributors	xiii
Preface	xix
PART I TO TREAT OR NOT TO TREAT?
To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective	3	(14)
Clive R. Hollin
To treat or not to treat? An empirical perspective	17	(18)
David J. Cooke
Lorraine Philip
To treat or not to treat? A financial perspective	35	(18)
Mark A. Cohen
PART II RISK ASSESSMENT
Risk assessment of child abuse	53	(18)
Martin Herbert
Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality disordered individuals	71	(14)
Christopher D. Webster
Gerard Bailes
Sex offender risk assessment	85	(12)
R. Karl Hanson
Psychophysiology and risk assessment	97	(14)
William D. Murphy
Psychometric assessment	111	(12)
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Case material and interview	123	(16)
Anthony R. Beech
PART III APPROACHES TO TREATMENT
Behavioral approaches to correctional management and rehabilitation	139	(16)
Michael A. Milan
Therapeutic community treatment programming in corrections	155	(24)
Douglas S. Lipton
Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning and rehabilitation programme	179	(16)
David Robinson
Frank J. Porporino
Intensive supervision in probation and parole settings	195	(10)
Paul Gendreau
Claire Goggin
Betsy Fulton
Family-based treatments	205	(16)
Cynthia Cupit Swenson
Scott W. Henggeler
Sonja K. Schoenwald
Alternative interventions for juvenile offenders: History of the Adolescent Diversion Project	221	(16)
William S. Davidson II
Stephen D. Jefferson
Aggie Legaspi
Jennifer Lujan
Angela M. Wolf
Delinquency prevention programs in schools	237	(22)
David LeMarquand
Richard E. Tremblay
Peer group therapy	259	(10)
John C. Gibbs
Granville Bud Potter
Albert K. Liau
Angie M. Schock
Steven P. Wightkin
Skills training	269	(12)
Clive R. Hollin
Emma J. Palmer
Anger treatment with offenders	281	(16)
Raymond W. Novaco
Mark Ramm
Laura Black
Relapse prevention: Reconceptualization and revision	297	(12)
D. Richard Laws
Forensic psychotherapy	309	(24)
Christopher Cordess
PART IV ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS
Adult sexual offenders against women	333	(16)
William L. Marshall
The assessment and treatment of sexual offenders against children	349	(14)
Tony Ward
Stephen. M. Hudson
Thomas R. Keenan
Adolescent sexual offenders: Assessment and treatment	363	(16)
Stephen M. Hudson
Tony Ward
Criminal justice programmes for men who assault their partners	379	(12)
Russell P. Dobash
R. Emerson Dobash
Firesetters	391	(24)
David J. Kolko
Assessment and treatment: Violent offenders	415	(18)
Devon L.L. Polaschek
Nikki Reynolds
Offenders with major mental disorders	433	(20)
Sheilagh Hodgins
Offenders with mental retardation	453	(14)
Kenneth Day
Offenders with personality disorders	467	(14)
Mary McMurran
Offenders with drink and drug problems	481	(14)
Mary McMurran
Property offences	495	(14)
James McGuire
Serial offenders	509	(14)
David M. Gresswell
PART V TREATMENT IN CONTEXT
Treatment in high security hospitals	523	(14)
Ronald Blackburn
Juvenile offending: Treatment in residential settings	537	(14)
Roger Bullock
Treatment in the community	551	(16)
Gill McIvor
Author Index	567	(20)
Subject Index	587