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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... defined context. The hoped-for result is that the reader can see most unmistakably what the issues are and different conceptualizations for how those issues might be resolved. Overall, this book is a composite of information from a ...
... definition is different and only serves within the context of specifying that an individual's “danger to the health and safety of others” does not “require proof of a recent overt act while the offender is in custody.”) Proving the ...
... defined sexually violent acts obscene phone calling, peeping in windows, or other such crimes if enacted against an adult. Included among the typical types of offenses that define “sexually violent” are a small number of sexual crimes ...
... defined as “a congenital or acquired physical or mental condition that results in a general lack of power to control sexual impulses.” This is obviously quite different from the DSM-IV definition of a concept with the same name. Four ...
... definition should now sound familiar: “a congenital or acquired condition that, by affecting a person's emotional or ... define a specific mental condition as either congenital or acquired. For at least most relevant diagnoses of mental ...
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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 |