Evaluating sex offenders
Subtitle: a manual for civil commitments and beyond
By: Dennis M. Doren.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Sex offenders -- United States.; Insane -- Commitment and detention -- United States.
Description: "Evaluating Sex Offenders is the first and only "how to" book describing the complete sex offender civil commitment evaluation. Aimed at helping practitioners, clinicians, counselors, and parole officers assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted of a sex crime, the text offers readers a step-by-step description of what examiners need to know."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Relevant components of sex offender civil commitment laws: the evaluation "referral questions"; title: Procedures for conducting the assessment; title: Diagnostic issues within sex offender civil commitment assessments: defining relevant paraphilias; title: Diagnostic issues within sex offender civil commitment assessments: diagnostic issues beyond the paraphilias; title: Using risk assessment instrumentation; title: Recidivism base rates; title: Clinical adjustments; title: The evaluation report and court testimony; title: Ethical issues.