Dangerousness Risk And The Governance Of Serious Sexual And Violent Offenders

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Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive and user-friendly guide on those offenders who are often assessed as being dangerous. Outlining, evaluating and commenting on specific methods, regimes and strategies for dealing with dangerous offenders throughout each chapter, this book begins by considering what a dangerous offender is and providing a brief historical account of how the label has been used for different types of offender over the last three or four centuries. The book examines sentencing policy in addition to early and current dangerousness legislation, evaluating the available sentences specifically designed for dangerous offenders and assessing their use and appropriateness. The role of risk and risk assessment tools is discussed, considering what risk assessment is, the way in which it works and how over recent times it has become more reliable and valid. It looks at the practical realities of how serious sexual and violent offenders are dealt with by the penal system in England and Wales. Finally, specific offender groups are considered, including female offenders, children and young people and mentally disordered offenders. Each chapter considers whether there are any differences in terms of policy, assessment and management strategies when sentencing and managing each distinct group; and if not whether any such modifications are required. This book will be key reading for students of law, criminology, social policy, psychology and sociology and of interest to criminal justice professionals including the police, prison officers, probation officers, psychologists, lawyers and judges.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Karen Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-03-29
File : 292 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136673894


Dangerousness Risk And The Governance Of Serious Sexual And Violent Offenders

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Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive and user-friendly guide on dangerous offenders. It considers what a dangerous offender is and how such offenders are assessed and classified.

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Genre : Law
Author : Karen Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-03-29
File : 267 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136673900


Dangerousness Risk And The Governance Of Serious Sexual And Violent Offenders

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Sex Offenders In The Community

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This book explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and students to develop an informed position on this complex and increasingly controversial issue. Although the focus is primarily upon the UK context, contributions from North America (USA and Canada) provide an important comparative perspective.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Amanda Matravers
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2013-10-18
File : 259 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134029211


Dangerous Offenders

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This highly controversial new book considers how the dangerous offender has become such a figure of collective anxiety for the citizens of rationalised Western societies. The authors consider: * ideas of danger and social threat in historical perspective * legal responses to violent criminals * attempts to predict dangerous behaviour * why particular groups, such as women, remain at risk from violent crime. This inspired collection invites us to rethink the received wisdom on dangerous offenders, and will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of criminology and the sociology of Risk.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Mark Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2002-01-04
File : 208 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134637041


Violent And Sexual Offenders

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This book provides an authoritative overview and analysis of issues of assessment, treatment and management of dangerous offenders. It takes particular account of recent policy and legislative changes such as the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the development of initiatives to manage dangerous offenders, such as MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements). The book addresses wider issues of risk and the dangerous offenders in the context of the risk society, questions the relationship between the assessment, treatment and management of offenders, and considers who it is appropriate to involve in this process. The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the assessment, treatment and management of violent and sexual offenders, and extends its coverage to include the issue of stalking. Contributors to the book bring to bear a wide range of expertise from both academic and practitioner contexts, and are drawn from the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Switzerland.

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Genre : Psychology
Author : Jane L. Ireland
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 338 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135846633


Risk Assessment And Management Of Known Sexual And Violent Offenders

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The role of Public Protection Panels is to assess and manage sexual and violent offenders in the community. The Panels' decisions are made on the basis of information from a range of risk assessment methods. This report provides an overview of the different means of risk assessment and management for such offenders.

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Genre : Criminal behavior, Prediction of
Author : Hazel Kemshall
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Release : 2001
File : 84 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105111584400


The Resettlement Of Sex Offenders After Custody

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Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the burden of the conviction itself, which may be both stigmatising and isolating, and they are the subject of sex offender register requirements, parole and other supervisory conditions. Circles of Support and Accountability in the UK started over ten years ago and have slowly spread across the country. They work closely with the police and probation services but rely entirely on volunteers prepared to give up their time to work with people often otherwise shunned by communities. Circles offer support to the person concerned but also hold them accountable for their future behaviour. They aim to ensure there are ‘no more victims’. This book is based on original research and provides a close-up picture of how these Circles of Support and Accountability work in practice. It brings together for the first time the voices of all the participants, from the offenders and the volunteers through to the Coordinators who link the volunteers to the professionals in the form of the police and probation services. The research was commissioned by Circles UK and funded by the Wates Foundation and the University of Leeds, School of Law.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : David Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-07-14
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317483137


The Oxford Handbook Of Sex Offences And Sex Offenders

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The Oxford Handbook on Sex Offenses and Sex Offenders provides comprehensive, even-handed analysis of the myriad of topics related to sex offenses, including pornography, sex trafficking, criminal justice responses, and the role of social media in sex crimes. Extending beyond the existing scholarly research on the topic, this volume teases out the key debates, controversies, and challenges involved in addressing sex crimes.

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Genre : Law
Author : Teela Sanders
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2017
File : 681 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780190213633


Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management Volume I

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This book, the first of two volumes edited by McCartan and Kemshall, focusses on perceptions of sexual offenders, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice, health and social policy. The chapters provide an oversight of contemporary policies, practices and debates within the area to help both professionals and researchers. The collection focuses on emerging areas (public health approaches, prevention, public perceptions of sexual abuse, and social constructionism), as well as more traditional topics (media, preventative and exceptional sentencing, resilience, and work force development). The authors examine public and professional engagement on sex offender management, and the changing socio-political landscape of sexual offender management. A bold and engaging volume, this edited collection will be of great importance to scholars and practitioners interested in perceptions of sexual offending.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Kieran McCartan
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2017-12-05
File : 249 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319635675