The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment

by Hollin, Clive R.

• ISBN13: 9780470854365
• ISBN10: 0470854367
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-24
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger management, school programs, and family-based approaches. Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is a concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.

Author Biography

Clive R. Hollin is the editor of The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

About the Editor	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Preface	xv
Foreword by David P. Farrington	xvii
Chapter 1 To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective
Clive R. Hollin	1	(16)
PART I RISK ASSESSMENT
Chapter 2 Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality disordered individuals
Christopher D. Webster and Gerard Bailes	17	(14)
Chapter 3 Sex offender risk assessment
R. Karl Hanson	31	(16)
PART II APPROACHES TO TREATMENT
Chapter 4 Behavioral approaches to correctional management and rehabilitation
Michael A. Milan	47	(16)
Chapter 5 Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning and rehabilitation programme
David Robinson and Frank J. Porporino	63	(16)
Chapter 6 Family-based treatments
Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Scott W. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald	79	(16)
Chapter 7 Delinquency prevention programs in schools
David LeMarquand and Richard E. Tremblay	95	(22)
Chapter 8 Skills training
Clive R. Hollin and Emma J Palmer	117	(12)
Chapter 9 Anger treatment with offenders
Raymond W. Novaco, Mark Ramm and Laura Black	129	(18)
PART III ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS
Chapter 10 Adult sexual offenders against women
William L. Marshall	147	(16)
Chapter 11 The assessment and treatment of sexual offenders against children
Tony Ward, Stephen M. Hudson and Thomas R. Keenan	163	(14)
Chapter 12 Firesetters
David J. Kolko	177	(24)
Chapter 13 Assessment and treatment: Violent offenders
Devon L.L. Polaschek and Nikki Reynolds	201	(18)
Chapter 14 Offenders with major mental disorders
Sheilagh Hodgins	219	(20)
Chapter 15 Offenders with personality disorders
Mary McMurran	239	(14)
Chapter 16 Property offences
James McGuire	253	(16)
Epilogue	269	(2)
Index	271