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Title:
Responding to sexual offending : perceptions, risk management and public protection
Author:
McCartan, Kieran, 1980- editor.
ISBN:
9781137358127
Physical Description:
xvi, 231 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
Palgrave studies in risk, crime and society
Contents:
The Realities of Legislating Against and Protecting the Public From Risky Groups / Community-Based Management of Sexual Offender Risk: Options and Opportunities / Female Sex Offenders: Gender, Risk and Risk Perception / New Technologies, "Risk" and Sexual Offending / Sex Offending and Sex Tourism: Problems, Policy and Challenges / Sexual Offending Treatment Programmes: The Importance of Evidence-Informed Practice / Understanding and Responding to Persons with Special Needs Who Have Sexually Offended / Risky Business? Supporting Desistance From Sexual Offending / Tales from the Trenches: Zooming in on the Process of Desistance for Sexual Offending / Creativity and Rehabilitation: What Else Might Work in Changing Sex Offenders' Behaviour? / Managing Sex Offenders in the UK: Challenges for Policy and Practice
Abstract:
"Sexual violence is a high-profile, complex and emotive issue which has become central to national and international discourses surrounding risk and risk management, child protection, human rights, criminal justice policy and public protection in modern society. This unique collection brings together a range of international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental understandings and responses to sexual violence. Exploring a variety of issues including the management of sexual offending and new and adaptive ways of rehabilitating and reintegrating sex offenders, this volume examines sexual violence policy, practice, theory and research across a range of different types of sexual offences. It closely explores the relationship between the state, public and practitioner community to create a rounded, societal view of sexual offending, with recommendations of how to facilitate better community engagement and ultimately reduce (re)offending"-- Provided by publisher.
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