Evaluating Sex Offenders: A Manual for Civil Commitments and BeyondDennis M. Doren SAGE Publications, 2002 M04 10 - 256 páginas A professional volume to help practitioners, clinicians, counselors, and parole officers, assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted of a sex crime. This is the most comprehensive volume available on every aspect of assessing risk. It compares all current risk assessment techniques of sex offenders in terms of ease of use, reliability, and predictive power. It is a complete guide to assessing sex offenders for likelihood of re-offense, and it provides a wealth of information on other aspects of the assessment process, including information gathering, interviewing offenders, and writing reports. Chapter topics include: defining risk; data gathering; diagnostic issues; recidivism base rates; risk factor lists; actuarial scales; instrumentation (violent and sexual); the evaluation report; presenting in court; ethical issues. |
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... Court Testimony The Evaluation Report Testifying About Evaluation Findings Summary Comments 9. Ethical Issues Procedural Concerns Communication Concerns A Final Comment Appendix A: Relapse Prevention Interview Basic Principles of ...
... court through expert witnesses, mental health clinicians with certain training background. These laws cannot effectively be implemented without the cooperation of some mental health professionals. If you, as a potential expert examiner ...
... courts. In effect, this chapter describes the context, purpose, and issues to be addressed within sex offender civil ... court testimony are described here. This section ends the chapters logically ordered for evaluators. Finally, the ...
... courts effectively maintain a list of people the courts consider qualified from which an evaluator is selected per case. This type of evaluator is clearly the court's expert. A variant on this is where the courts need to designate who ...
... courts. In practice, these are typically psychologists and psychiatrists with a background working with sex offenders or at least violent criminals of varied types. Relative to the number of states and petitions involving sex offender ...
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2 Procedures for Conducting the Assessment | 27 |
Defining Relevant Paraphilias | 51 |
Diagnostic Issues Beyond the Paraphilias | 87 |
5 Using Risk Assessment Instrumentation | 103 |
6 Recidivism Base Rates | 145 |
7 Clinical Adjustments | 161 |
8 The Evaluation Report and Court Testimony | 179 |
Appendix A | 201 |
Appendix B | 211 |
Appendix C | 217 |
Appendix D | 225 |
References | 229 |
Index | 237 |
About the Author | 243 |
9 Ethical Issues | 189 |
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Evaluating Sex Offenders: A Manual for Civil Commitments and Beyond Dennis M. Doren Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Evaluating Sex Offenders: A Manual for Civil Commitments and Beyond Dennis M. Doren Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Evaluating Sex Offenders: A Manual for Civil Commitments and Beyond Dennis M. Doren Vista previa limitada - 2002 |