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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... exist is for the purpose of diminishing life risks in people's everyday lives. Military forces are maintained for ... exists from a subset of the sex offender population. The controversy seems to stem from varying degrees of concern ...
... exist concerning the interpretation of statutory terms. All 15 current statutes are reviewed, though the selection of concepts and terms is restricted to those of direct relevance to evaluators. The pertinent issues included here are 1 ...
... exists in Iowa, for instance, where the court designates an evaluator who is “deemed to be professionally qualified to conduct such an examination” upon the motion of the assistant attorney general. The same or similar statutory ...
... exist in two ways. In Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, the laws apparently allow the commitment of someone who ... exists in Iowa and Washington, as described below in the section Recent Overt Act. One potentially thorny issue for ...
... exists in the laws of eight states: Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Washington, or over half the commitment states. The term's statutory definition is virtually the same across all of ...
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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 |