Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention

This timely handbook provides in-depth overviews of the myriad and multi-faceted issues surrounding sexual assault and its pervasiveness in today’s culture. Drawing for multiple viewpoints and experts, the book is divided into seven comprehensive sections, covering such topics as risk factors, varying theoretical frameworks, prevention and intervention, and special populations. Within these sections the authors provide historical background as well as the latest research, and offer treatment outcomes and potentials.Selected topics covered in this book include:

• Feminist theories of sexual assault
• Social and economic factors surrounding sexual violence
• Mental, physiological, physical, and functional health concerns of victims, including PTSD
• Major categories of sexual offenders
• Treatment of sexual assault survivors in the LGBTQ+ community
• Procedural processes related to sexual assault investigation and adjudication within the criminal justice system

The Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention is a vital book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of students, researchers, practitioners, and clinicians in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, community mental health, and sociology.

• history of sexual assault
• reporting of sexual assault
• epidemiology of sexual assault
• sexual harrassment
• cultural issues in sexual assault
• social policy and sexual assault
• public policy and sexual assault
• cross-cultural studies of sexual assault
• sexual assault prevention
• feminist perspective on sexual assault
• alcohol and sexual assault
• risk factors for sexual assault
• Blame and shame in sexual assault
• memory and sexual assault
• sexual dysfunction and sexual assault
• Sexual assault at college campuses
• sexual victimization advocacy programs
• treating victims of sexual assault
• Sexual assault and the law
• PTSD and sexual assault

• Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

  William T. O’Donohue

• Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

  Paul A. Schewe

William O’Donohue, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.  He is a licensed psychologist in Nevada and Director of the Victims of Crime Treatment Center that provides free treatment to child and adult victims of sexual assault.  He has published over 80 books and 300 journal articles and chapters. 

Paul Schewe, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice in the College of LAS at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has served as the director of UIC’s Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Violence. He is a clinical/community psychologist whose work ranges from basic research identifying factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence, to developing preventive interventions, to using evaluation and dissemination strategies to further develop existing violence prevention programs for agencies, communities, and statewide networks of service providers. The focus of his research includes sexual assault, teen dating violence, domestic violence, and early childhood interventions to promote positive social-emotional development.

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