Overview
- Brings together a range of stakeholders, agencies and practitioners to discuss the multifaceted dimensions of risk and sexual offenders in the criminal justice system
- Explores the key issues in researching risk and the challenging relationship between research, policy and practice
- Speaks to academics and practitioners interested media studies, criminology, psychology, sociology, social policy, social work and/or politics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society (PSRCS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hazel Kemshall is Professor of Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management, Volume I
Book Subtitle: Perceptions
Editors: Kieran McCartan, Hazel Kemshall
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63567-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63566-8Published: 21 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87585-9Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63567-5Published: 05 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2517
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 235
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sexual Offending, Crime and Society, Crime Control and Security, Prison and Punishment, Cybercrime