Overview
- Provides concise, portable professional reference for mental health practitioners
- Takes an evidence-based approach to psychometrics, risk assessment, and prediction of unlawful sexual behavior
- Editors are well-respected experts on issues of sexuality and sexual offending behaviors
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical and Legislative Issues
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Front Matter
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Assessment, Methodological, & Psychometric Issues
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- sexually violent predators
- sexual offender recidivism
- sexual violence and law
- sexual violence and ethical concerns
- protecting public from sexual predators
- childlren as sexual predators
- child victims of sexual predators
- predicting future dangerousness
- mental health treatment of sexually violent predators
- incarceration of sexually violent predators
- constitutional aspects of sexually violent crimes
- legislation concerning sexually violent crimes
- sexual violence and civil commitment
- psychometrics of risk assessment for paraphilias
- clinial management of sexual paraphilias
- DSM-V and sexually violent predators
- physiological assessment of sexually violent predators
- polygraph and plethysmography in sexually violent crime
- protocols for SVP evaluations
- expert testimony for crimes of sexual violence
- forensic psychiatry
About this book
Among the topics covered:
· Civil commitment of sex offenders.
· The physiological basis of problematic sexual interests and behaviors.
· Sexually violent predator evaluations: problems and proposals.
· Cultural considerations in the assessment of sexually violent predators.
· Management of sex offenders in community settings.
· Effective use of an expert in sexually violent predator commitment hearings.
Offering numerous issues for discussion and debate with considerable implications for clinical practice, policy, and the judicial system, Sexually Violent Predators will interest and enlighten forensic psychologists and psychiatrists as well as social workers, policy-makers, and legal professionals.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
William T. O'Donohue, Ph.D. is professor and chairman of the department of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. For the past 16 years Dr. O'Donohue has directed a free clinic supported by a National Institute of Justice grant which assesses and treats sexually abused children. He regularly testifies as an expert witness in this area and has published numerous books and articles in peer-reviewed journals on adolescent development, child sexual abuse, and forensic psychology. Dr. O'Donohue was an advisor to the DSM-V Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association and is a member of the Nevada Attorney General's Victims of Crime Subcommittee.
Daniel Bromberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is the Director of Special Psychological Services, LLC, Bloomfield, New Jersey. He is a licensed psychologist and is board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in behavioral and cognitive psychology. Dr. Bromberg provides a range of assessment and treatment services regarding issues of childhood maltreatment and has a special interest in working with sexual offenders. Dr. Bromberg has also served as an expert witness numerous times.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexually Violent Predators: A Clinical Science Handbook
Editors: William T. O’Donohue, Daniel S. Bromberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04696-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04695-8Published: 16 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04696-5Published: 03 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 432
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Forensic Psychology, Forensic Psychiatry, Social Work, Sexual Behavior