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The Offender/Acquitted
This chapter hears voices from the diverse range of rape offenders and the inequalities they experience within the Criminal Justice System. This, to...
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Once a Sex Offender, Always a Sex Offender?
Research and policy are primarily concerned with why individuals continue to sexually reoffend. This contrasts with life course criminology, which...
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The Lapse and Relapse of Correctional-Based Sex Offender Treatment and Intervention
The uneven history of sex offender treatment reflects the premise of this book: the relative absence of a rigorous scientific approach aimed at...
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A Scarlet Letter in the Digital Age : Sex Offender Registration and Public Notification
Uncertainty about sex offender treatment, the emergence of a risk-oriented correctional philosophy, and the rise of populist justice movements in...
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Brief Therapy and Crisis Intervention
Crisis intervention counseling and brief therapy are similar in the sense that it is necessary for the counselor or therapist to develop rapport with...
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Moving Forward in Offender-Oriented Prevention: The Stop It Now! Prevention Project from an International Perspective
The large numbers of victims and the extensive harmful effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) necessitate dedicated attention towards prevention...
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Public Punitiveness Towards Individuals with Sexual Convictions in Italy: A Vignette Study
Sexual violence is among the offences on which the public has expressed the greatest alarm and punitiveness and towards which more severe norms and...
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Group Counseling in Corrections
The counseling of juveniles and adults who are under the supervision of a criminal justice agency will generally involve some form of individual...
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Sex Offenders Under the Microscope: Are They Unique?
No other offenders have been under as much scrutiny as perpetrators of sex crimes. A vast amount of research has been conducted in hospitals,...
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Ineffectiveness of the Right to Compensation for Victims of Sexual Violence: A Comparison Between Five EU Member States
In EU Member States, victims of sexual violence can seek justice through financial compensation in several ways: offender payments through an...
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Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Diversion and Formal Processing
In this chapter, various means used to process juvenile offenders are considered. The juvenile court was created with the specific philosophy of...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapies Used in Correctional Treatment
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is broadly defined as a type of therapy that focuses on both the cognitive (thinking) and behavioral (action)...
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The Construction of Sexual Offending as a Social Problem : A Historical Perspective
The chapter provides a recent historical perspective on sexual offending since the postwar era. This overview highlights that the social phenomena of...
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A History of Psychological Treatment in the Criminal Justice System
This chapter reviews the history of treatment in prisons. We begin by briefly reviewing the origin of laws and prisons, and then focus on the...
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The Good Lives Model: A Strength-Based Approach to Rehabilitating Offenders
The Risk Needs Responsivity (RNR) model has contributed immensely to the contemporary understanding of offending and its treatment, resulting in...
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Administration of Agencies Serving Endangered Children
The terms endangered children, children at risk, and no-fault children are used to identify the children who might come under the protection of a...
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Identifying sex trafficking in Adult Services Websites: an exploratory study with a British police force
Human trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation and modern slavery have experienced an unprecedented boom over the past decade due to the...
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Common Psychological Treatments Used to Address Criminal Behavior
This chapter focuses on psychological treatments (The term treatmentTreatment is deliberately chosen since these activities are often delivered by...
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Community-Based Sanctions: Probation and Post-Release Supervision
This chapter defines probation and traces the origins of probation from its early development to the present time. The organization and operations of...