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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... crime. This situation can make the use of certain risk assessment instrumentation difficult (see Chapter 5). Most statutes, however, require that the incarceration soon to end be directly related to the relevant sexual offense (the ...
... crimes of relevance to the commitment process, what are typically referred to as “sexually violent.” (The only two states not currently using this phrase are Minnesota and North Dakota. These states use the phrases “harmful sexual ...
... crimes if enacted against an adult. Included among the typical types of offenses that define “sexually violent” are a small number of sexual crimes that are unique compared with what other states list. For instance, Iowa's definition ...
... crimes called sexually violent. (The definition of this last term is described below.) There are two clarifications needed for that definition, however. The first one involves confusion between “predisposition” and the “assessment of ...
... crimes. It appears from these phrases that for someone (in the listed states except North Dakota) to be considered as meeting the criteria for commitment, the person's predisposition needs to be related to some degree of likelihood for ...
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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 |