| Description |
xii, 306 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index. |
| Contents |
General issues -- The criminological perspective -- Defining and measuring desistance -- The age-crime curve: a brief overview -- Theoretical perspectives on desistance -- Factors influencing desistance -- Two major theories of desistance -- The forensic psychological perspective -- Do sex offenders desist? -- Sex offender treatment and desistance -- Reentry and reintegration -- Barriers to reentry and reintegration -- Overcoming barriers to reentry and reintegration -- Recruitment -- The unknown sex offenders: bringing them in from the cold -- Blending theory and practice: a criminological perspective -- Desistance-focused intervention -- The good lives model of offender rehabilitation: basic assumptions, etiological commitments, and practice implications -- The good lives model and desistance theory and research: points of convergence -- The good lives-desistance model: assessment and treatment -- Where to from here? -- Dignity, punishment, and human rights: the ethics of desistance -- Moral strangers or one of us? Concluding thoughts. |
| Subject |
Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation.
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Sex offenders -- Services for.
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Sex crimes -- Prevention.
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| Added Author |
Ward, Tony, 1954 March 17-
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| ISBN |
9781606239353 hardback alkaline paper |
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160623935X hardback alkaline paper |
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