Sex and Violence: The Psychology of Violence and Risk Assessment

by Hollin; Clive

• ISBN13: 9780415268905
• ISBN10: 0415268907
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Produced in response to the growing international demand for information, this book details the latest research in understanding and controlling violent and sexual offences. Increasing numbers of psychologists are now studying and working with offenders to the advancement of forensic psychology. Chapters cover contributions from ten different countries and are grouped into three sections dealing with risk assessment, sex offenders and offences and violent offenders and offences. Sex and Violencewill be of interest to scholars in criminology, psychology and forensic psychiatry and to policy-makers and practitioners who deal with sexual and violent offences.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Risk Assessment	p. 5
Risk assessment: Review of psychometric measures	p. 7
Toward a scientific foundation of sex offender risk assessment	p. 23
Clinical practice and violence risk assessment: Availability of MacArthur risk cues in psychiatric settings	p. 38
The 'risky' business of child abuse assessment in British Columbia	p. 56
Assessing and managing risk among mentally disordered offenders in Northern Ireland	p. 67
Implementing risk assessment procedures in a forensic psychiatric setting: Clinical judgement revisited	p. 83
Sex Offenders and Offences	p. 103
Clinical, legal and ethical issues for mental health professionals in implementing a sexual predator law in the United States	p. 105
Special legal requirements for competent forensic assessments of questionable 'Recovered Memories' of childhood sexual abuse in criminal trials	p. 123
Delays in reporting childhood sexual abuse and implications for legal proceedings	p. 138
Developing a descriptive model of the offence chains of New Zealand rapists: Taxonomic implications	p. 153
Situational factors in sexual offending	p. 175
Violent Offenders and Offences	p. 195
Violent crime and offending trajectories in the course of life: An empirical life-span developmental typology of criminal careers	p. 197
Can police prevent domestic violence?	p. 210
Mutilation-murder cases in Japan	p. 229
Chasing ghosts: Offender profiling and terrorism	p. 242
Imprisonment for homicide: European perspectives concerning human rights	p. 259
Index	p. 281
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