How to Work With Sex Offenders

by Flora; Rudy

• ISBN13: 9780789007339
• ISBN10: 0789007339
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Learn to work effectively with sexual criminals! How to Work with Sex Offenders is the first complete manual available on the subject for professionals who deal with this very difficult population. This user-friendly, comprehensive resource presents new data that will give you techniques for effectively interviewing sex offenders and outlines innovative treatment options in an understandable way, but that is just part of what makes this book unique. How to Work with Sex Offenders walks you through the criminal justice, human services, and mental health systems as applied to sex offenders from start to finish -- you'll learn what happens to the offender from the point when he/she is apprehended, through prosecution, adjudication, and treatment. From the Preface, by Rudy Flora: "Sexual offending impacts both victim and offender. The clinical harm experienced by a victim is significant and recovery is long-termed. Offenders, too, are often trapped in the tragedy of their deviance. Sex offenders are extremely skillful at avoiding detection, and will use any 'system confusion'displayed by providers to their advantage. [With this book] the reader will be exposed, in a step-by-step format, to how the criminal justice, human service, and mental health systems function." How to Work With Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Criminal Justice, Human Service, and Mental Health Professionals examines: how the current system works, from start to finish the roles of child protective services workers, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, physicians/hospital staff, district attorneys, defense lawyers, judges, mental health professionals, foster families, probation officers, correctional officers, parole officers, and social services providers individual, family, and group therapy models basic universal concepts regarding identification of sex offenders profiles of exhibitionists, frotteurs, voyeurs, pedophiles, rapists, sexual sadists and paraphiliacs what to expect when called as an expert witness at a sex offender's trial sexual assault as a clinical disorder suggested treatment formats for sex offenders in an outpatient setting, inpatient psychiatric hospital, or correctional facility the costs of incarceration as well as inpatient and outpatient costs the difficulties of parole and probational supervision for sex offenders presentencing reports and interviewing strategies and much more Many sex offenders were early victims themselves. Incarceration alone will not alleviate the problem; other methods to prevent repeat offences are needed. Those who encounter these offenders require certain skills in order to properly protect the public and the victim as well as helping the offenders themselves. How to Work with Sex Offenders is the resource you need to handle this extraordinarily difficult and vitally important task.

Author Biography

Rudy Flora, MSW, LCSW, is a clinician in private practice in Virginia, providing individual, family, and group treatment services for sex offenders and their families. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the School of Social Work at Radford University in the Abingdon program. Formerly a probation officer, Flora has worked with sex offenders for over two decades

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
The Sex Offender: An Introduction	1	(12)
Definitions	2	(1)
Statistical Information	3	(1)
Sex Offenders and Social Policy	4	(2)
How the Current System Works	6	(7)
The Criminal Justice System	13	(20)
Law Enforcement	14	(8)
The Sex Offender and Corrections	22	(1)
Incarceration and Inpatient and Outpatient Treatment Costs	23	(1)
Correctional Treatment Programs	24	(2)
Probation and Parole Supervision	26	(7)
The Human Services System	33	(14)
Child Protective Services	34	(1)
Demographics	34	(2)
Intervention	36	(3)
Clinical Features in Child Sexual Abuse	39	(1)
Other Behavioral and Developmental Issues	40	(2)
The Child Protective Service Worker	42	(5)
The Mental Health Professional	47	(18)
The Role of the Therapist	48	(2)
Standards in Treatment	50	(4)
Therapist Qualifications and Skills	54	(3)
Clinical Assessment	57	(4)
Confidentiality	61	(1)
Serving As an Expert Witness	62	(3)
Clinical Classification of Sexual Disorders	65	(18)
Sexual Disorder	65	(1)
Paraphilias	66	(14)
Paraphilias Not Otherwise Specified	80	(1)
Sexual Disorder Not Otherwise Specified	81	(2)
The Paraphilias	83	(12)
Background and History	83	(2)
Some Clinical Studies	85	(2)
The Criminal Justice System and Paraphilias	87	(1)
Paraphilias Types	88	(7)
Rape As a Clinical and Criminal Disturbance	95	(20)
Rape As a Clinical Disturbance	96	(3)
Child Molestation Typologies and Taxonomies	99	(4)
Rape Typologies and Taxonomies	103	(4)
Rape As a Criminal Disturbance	107	(8)
Sex Offender Characteristics	115	(12)
Sex Offenders Violate Law	115	(2)
The Sex Offender Psychological Profile	117	(4)
Sex Offenders and Their Crimes	121	(3)
Other Behavioral Characteristics	124	(1)
A Sexual Offense Chain	125	(2)
Theory and Treatment	127	(16)
Theory and Sexual Assault	128	(7)
Basic Treatment Principles	135	(1)
Specific Treatment Models	136	(2)
Sexual Disorders and Treatment Suggestions	138	(5)
Individual Therapy	143	(14)
A Treatment Philosophy	144	(1)
Individual or Group Therapy	144	(3)
Sexual Recovery Therapy	147	(10)
Family Therapy	157	(16)
Family Therapy Techniques	157	(6)
Therapy of Adult Sex Offenders	163	(7)
Multiple Systems Model	170	(3)
Group Therapy	173	(18)
A Brief History of Sex Offender Group Therapy	173	(3)
Some Basic Elements for Sex Offender Group Therapy	176	(2)
Starting a Sex Offender Treatment Group	178	(3)
Group Therapy Models	181	(10)
Special Populations	191	(16)
Adolescent Sex Offenders	191	(6)
Antisocial Personality Disorder Offenders	197	(2)
Female Sex Offenders	199	(8)
Other Special Populations	207	(12)
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders	207	(3)
The Mentally Retarded Sex Offender	210	(2)
Serial Sex Offenders	212	(1)
Stalkers	213	(3)
Sex Addicts	216	(3)
Additional Treatment Concepts	219	(8)
Pharmacology and Surgical Castration	219	(2)
Recidivism and Relapse	221	(1)
Risk Assessment	222	(1)
Registration, Public Notice, and the Internet	223	(1)
Conclusions	224	(3)
References	227	(12)
Index	239