Assessing risk in sex offenders
Subtitle: a practitioner's guide
By: Leam Craig, Kevin Browne, and Anthony Beech.
Contributors: Browne, Kevin.; Beech, Anthony R.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470018972; 9780470018989
Subjects: Sex offenders -- United States; Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- United States; Risk assessment -- United States; Recidivism -- United States -- Prevention; Evidence, Expert -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Characteristics of sexual offenders; title: Developmental frameworks and functional analysis; title: Methodological considerations in measuring predictive accuracy; title: Static factors associated with sexual recidivism; title: Actuarial and clinically guided measures; title: Dynamic factors associated with sexual recidivism; title: Treatment and sexual recidivism; title: Aetiology and risk; title: Implementing risk management policy; title: Improving risk assessment estimates; title: Strengths based approaches to risk assessment.