Overview
- Explores the impact of intellectual functioning on sexual crime and offending
- Analyses the treatment and assessment of those with IF disability
- Suggests potential new directions for researchers and practitioners in this field
Part of the book series: Sexual Crime (SEXCR)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores sexual crime and intellectual functioning. Drawing on expertise from clinical practice and applied research, the volume begins with an exploration of the theoretical and historical background to the interest in links between sexual offending and intellectual functioning. The authors then move on to discuss assessment of intellectual functioning in prison, interventions for low intellectual functioning, autistic spectrum and personality disorder. This book offers a rare insight into the phenomenon of high IQ and sexual offending, a much neglected aspect of the sexual crime literature, and includes novel research that unpacks this link. It further offers an extraordinary insight into the experiences of a person of superior IQ in the criminal justice system for a sexual offence.
The book is relevant not only to psychologists, criminologists, social workers and students, but also to practitioners, researchers and the general public with an interest in learning about sexual offending and intellectual functioning.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rebecca Lievesley is Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK and has conducted research within the criminal justice system for many years.
Belinda Winder is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Head of the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Helen Swaby is Lecturer in Counselling at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. She has a background in Forensic Psychology and is a trainee Integrative Psychotherapist.
Nicholas Blagden is Associate Professor and co-leads the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Phil Banyard is Head of the Psychology Department at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is a recipient of the British Psychological Society’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexual Crime and Intellectual Functioning
Editors: Kerensa Hocken, Rebecca Lievesley, Belinda Winder, Helen Swaby, Nicholas Blagden, Phil Banyard
Series Title: Sexual Crime
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52328-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52327-5Published: 01 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52330-5Published: 02 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52328-2Published: 30 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2628-8168
Series E-ISSN: 2628-8176
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 252
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Forensic Psychology, Sexual Offending, Applied Psychology, Sexual Behavior, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Law and Psychology