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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... mental condition of individuals and the concomitant risk for enacting certain criminal sexual behaviors in the future. Such evidence virtually always can only be presented to a court through expert witnesses, mental health clinicians ...
... mental health professional's assessment and testimony. The first involves a certain type of mental condition. The second requires a specific type of risk. Given that the assessment of these criteria are, in effect, what the rest of this ...
... Mental Condition As is typical in the forensic application of professional mental health practices, the legal specifications of the mental condition to be assessed in sex offender civil commitments and our more typical psychiatric ...
... mental disorder or dysfunction.” Likewise, North Dakota does not give an overall name for the requisite mental condition, but describes it as “a congenital or acquired condition that is manifested by a sexual disorder, a personality ...
... condition from another. In some jurisdictions, however, there has been a great deal of struggle concerning what the ... mental condition, and hence, should not be committed. The prosecution side to this argument, and typically the ...
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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 |