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Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community - Couverture souple

Harrison, Karen

 
9781843925262: Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1843925265 ISBN 13 : 9781843925262
Editeur : Willan, 2010

Synopsis

Sex offenders, and in particular paedophiles, have been the subject of much political and media attention, producing intensive debates about the best way of dealing with them. This book explores these issues, evaluating the measures in use or being considered, including drug treatment, MAPPA, the use of the Sex Offender Register, restorative justice techniques, and treatment programmes. It is concerned with high-risk sex offenders both when they are sentenced to a community order, and also when they are released back into the community after a custodial sentence.

The introductory section opens with a discussion on how terms such as paedophilia are constructed and viewed, and then looks at how government policy regarding sex offending has developed over recent years. Section two looks at issues concerned with risk management, questioning whether enough is being done to monitor the risk that high-risk offenders pose when released into society; whilst section three, on risk reduction covers the main methods of treatment, including sex offender treatment programmes, pharmacotherapy (chemical castration) and restorative and reintegration techniques.

Section Four focuses on specific offender groups; including female sexual offenders, sexual harm by youth, mentally disordered sexual offenders and intellectual disabled offenders. These assess in what ways these offenders are different to the 'norm' and look at how we should be dealing and treating these differences.

The final section looks at social and moral responsibilities, including the patterns, prevention and protection of cyber-sex offences and media constructions of and reactions to paedophilia. In the final chapter the concept of dignity is addressed and the balance between community protection and the rights of sex offenders involved is evaluated.

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À propos de l'auteur

Karen Harrison is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Hull.

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Éditeur
Willan
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1843925265
ISBN 13 
9781843925262
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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