Desistance from Sex Offending
Desistance from Sex Offending
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This book offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policy-makers, the public, and even clinicians. The authors argue that most sex offenders are "people like us," with the potential to lead meaningful, law-abiding lives -- if given a chance and appropriate support. They describe an empirically and theoretically grounded rehabilitation approach, the Good Lives Model, which can be integrated with the assessment and intervention approaches that clinicians already use. Drawing on the latest knowledge about factors promoting desistance from crime, the book discusses how encouraging naturally occurring desistance processes, and directly addressing barriers to community reintegration, can make treatment more effective and long lasting.
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Table of Content
Table of Content
I. General Issues1. IntroductionII. The Criminological Perspective2. Defining and Measuring Desistance3. The Age-Crime Curve: A Brief Overview4. Theoretical Perspectives on Desistance5. Factors Influencing Desistance 6. Two Major Theories of Desistance III. The Forensic Psychological Perspective7. Do Sex Offenders Desist?8. Sex Offender Treatment and Desistance IV. Reentry and Reintegration9. Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration10. Overcoming Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration V. Recruitment11. The Unknown Sex Offenders: Bringing Them in from the Cold12. Blending Theory and Practice: A Criminological PerspectiveVI. Desistance-Focused Intervention13. The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation: Basic Assumptions, Etiological Commitments, and Practice Implications 14. The Good Lives Model and Desistance Theory and Research: Points of Convergence15. The Good Lives-Desistance Model: Assessment and TreatmentVII. Where to from Here?16. Dignity, Punishment, and Human Rights: The Ethics of Desistance17. Moral Strangers or One of Us?: Concluding Thoughts
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