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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... Procedures for Conducting the Assessment 27 National Standards 27 Standard Procedures for Gathering Information 31 Ethical Considerations 49 Summary Comments 49 3. Diagnostic Issues Within Sex Offender Civil Commitment Assessments ...
... procedures are used. In other words, this stance assumes that the process of prosecutors using only evaluators in favor of these laws could lead either to an inflated frequency of assessment findings that subjects meet commitment ...
... procedures for the assessment. Issues of what information is necessary, how to obtain it, how to organize it, the role of the interview, and so on are addressed. This chapter is meant as a practical guide for getting started in the ...
... procedures, time frames, and definitions of certain terms), those other components were considered beyond the scope ... Procedures for Commitment of Persons With Sexual Psychopathic Personalities and Sexually Dangerous Persons, Minnesota ...
... procedures, however, differs significantly. Precommitment. First, there is the issue of the various stages of assessment-enacted precommitment. There are essentially two potential precommitment stages, with each involving more than one ...
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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 |