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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... criminal sexual behaviors in the future. Such evidence virtually always can only be presented to a court through expert witnesses, mental health clinicians with certain training background. These laws cannot effectively be implemented ...
... criminals of varied types. Relative to the number of states and petitions involving sex offender civil commitments, there seem to be a surprisingly small number of evaluators falling into this category. A common finding is that the same ...
... criminal justice system does not need to prosecute sexually criminal acts with a sexual charge for the act to be considered relevant. Clinical. Commitment. Criteria. All current sex offender civil commitment statutes include two commitment ...
... criminal sexual act. The second involves actual DSM-IV diagnostic categories such as sexual disorder, paraphilia, and/or personality disorder. “Acquired or congenital . . .” The commonality and centrality of the initial definitional ...
... criminal conduct that has no other motive besides self-gain. Although this differentiation can be made, the counterargument is that what one person labels as civil disobedience is easily labeled by another as criminal activity—it is all ...
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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 |