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There is a growing consensus that offender rehabilitation, prison regimes, and the treatment of offenders with special needs, must be based on research, methods and experience that are effective, humane and related to individual, organizational, and social considerations.

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There is growing need to base the rehabilitation, prison regimesand treatment of offenders with special needs on research basedmethods and experience.This authoritative handbook will help youprovide care for such offenders which is effective,humane andrelated o individual organisational and social considerations -whether based in community,residential prison or secure hospitalsettings.The Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment provides acomprehensive guide to the whole range of approaches to treatment,including behavioural/cognitive,family work, reasoning andrehabilitation,and anger management.It goes on to examine theassessment of various categories of offenders such as childabusers,violent,mentally disordered offenders and sex offenders,andalso looks a different ypes of reatment settings -inprisons,maximum security hospitals,residential settings and in thecommunity.ESSENTIAL RESOURCE THAT PROVIDES...- Editor and contributors with wide-ranging understanding andextensive expertise in the field of offender treatment.- A single-volume,authoritative,comprehensive and internationalreference.

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There is a growing consensus that offender rehabilitation, prison regimes, and the treatment of offenders with special needs must be based on research, methods and experience that are effective, humane and related to individual, organisational, and social considerations. This authoritative, comprehensive and international handbook will fill this need, as a resource for advanced students and professional courses and for researchers and practitioners. The Handbook provides an up-to-date review of current knowledge and best practice in the rehabilitation and treatment of offenders, in coomunity, prison and secure hospital settings. Major sections cover the rationale and objectives of treatment, risk assessment, the whole range of approaches to treatment (including behavioural/cognitive, family work, reasoning, rehabilitation, and anger management), and the assessment and treatment of various categories of offenders and problems (with detailed chapters that include child abuse, violence, mentally disordered offenders and sex offenders). A final section of the Handbook deals with different types of treatment settings - maximum security hospitals, residential settings, and in the community. This important volume will be essential for prison and correctional services, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists and mental health nurses working with offenders, and probation and coummunity workers, and also for libraries serving academics and professionals in criminology, law and penal policy.

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There is a growing consensus that offender rehabilitation, prison regimes, and the treatment of offenders with special needs must be based on research, methods and experience that are effective, humane and related to individual, organisational, and social considerations. This authoritative, comprehensive and international handbook will fill this need, as a resource for advanced students and professional courses and for researchers and practitioners. The Handbook provides an up-to-date review of current knowledge and best practice in the rehabilitation and treatment of offenders, in coomunity, prison and secure hospital settings. Major sections cover the rationale and objectives of treatment, risk assessment, the whole range of approaches to treatment (including behavioural/cognitive, family work, reasoning, rehabilitation, and anger management), and the assessment and treatment of various categories of offenders and problems (with detailed chapters that include child abuse, violence, mentally disordered offenders and sex offenders). A final section of the Handbook deals with different types of treatment settings - maximum security hospitals, residential settings, and in the community. This important volume will be essential for prison and correctional services, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists and mental health nurses working with offenders, and probation and coummunity workers, and also for libraries serving academics and professionals in criminology, law and penal policy.

Author Biography

Clive Hollin, University of Leicester, UK.

Table of Contents

About the Editor.List of Contributors.Preface.TO TREAT OR NOT TO TREAT?To Treat or Not to Treat?: An Historical Perspective (C.Hollin).To Treat or Not to Treat?: An Empirical Perspective (D. Cooke L.Philip).To Treat or Not to Treat?: A Financial Perspective (M.Cohen).RISK ASSESSMENT.Risk Assessment of Child Abuse (M. Herbert).Assessing Violence Risk in Mentally and Personality DisorderedIndividuals (C. Webster G. Bailes).Sex Offender Risk Assessment (R. Hanson).Psychophysiology and Risk Assessment (W. Murphy).Psychometric Assessment (G. Gudjonsson)Case Material and Interview (A. Beech).APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.Behavioral Approaches to Correctional Management and Rehabilitation(M. Milan).Therapeutic Community Treatment Programming in Corrections (D.Lipton).Programming in Cognitive Skills: The Reasoning and RehabilitationProgramme (D. Robinson F. Porporino).Intensive Supervision in Probation and Parole Settings (P.Gendreau, et al.).Family-Based Treatments (C. Swenson, et al.).Alternative Interventions for Juvenile Offenders: History of theAdolescent Diversion Project (W. Davidson, et al.).Delinquency Prevention Programs in Schools (D. LeMarquand R.Tremblay).Peer Group Therapy (J. Gibbs, et al.).Skills Training (C. Hollin E. Palmer).Anger Treatment with Offenders (R. Novaco, et al.).Relapse Prevention: Reconceptualization and Revision (D.Laws).Forensic Psychotherapy (C. Cordess).ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS.Adult Sexual Offenders Against Women (W. Marshall).The Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders Against Children(T. Ward, et al.).Adolescent Sexual Offenders: Assessment and Treatment (S. Hudson T.Ward).Criminal Justice Programmes for Men Who Assault Their Partners (R.Dobash R. Emerson Dobash).Firesetters (D. Kolko).Assessment and Treatment: Violent Offenders (D. Polaschek N.Reynolds).Offenders with Major Mental Disorders (S. Hodgins).Offenders with Mental Retardation (K. Day).Offenders with Personality Disorders (M. McMurran).Offenders with Drink and Drug Problems (M. McMurran).Property Offences (J. McGuire).Serial Offenders (D. Gresswell).TREATMENT IN CONTEXT.Treatment in High Security Hospitals (R. Blackburn).Juvenile Offending: Treatment in Residential Settings (R.Bullock).Treatment in the Community (G. McIvor).Author Index.Subject Index.

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"…can be recommended confidently to anyone wishing to obtain up-to-date information…" (British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol 6(1), February 2004)

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There is a growing consensus that offender rehabilitation, prison regimes, and the treatment of offenders with special needs must be based on research, methods and experience that are effective, humane and related to individual, organisational, and social considerations. This authoritative, comprehensive and international handbook will fill this need, as a resource for advanced students and professional courses and for researchers and practitioners. The Handbook provides an up-to-date review of current knowledge and best practice in the rehabilitation and treatment of offenders, in coomunity, prison and secure hospital settings. Major sections cover the rationale and objectives of treatment, risk assessment, the whole range of approaches to treatment (including behavioural/cognitive, family work, reasoning, rehabilitation, and anger management), and the assessment and treatment of various categories of offenders and problems (with detailed chapters that include child abuse, violence, mentally disordered offenders and sex offenders). A final section of the Handbook deals with different types of treatment settings - maximum security hospitals, residential settings, and in the community. This important volume will be essential for prison and correctional services, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists and mental health nurses working with offenders, and probation and coummunity workers, and also for libraries serving academics and professionals in criminology, law and penal policy.

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"?can be recommended confidently to anyone wishing to obtain up-to-date information?" (British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol 6(1), February 2004)

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"...can be recommended confidently to anyone wishing to obtain up-to-date information..." (British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol 6(1), February 2004)

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"...can be recommended confidently to anyone wishing to obtain up-to-date information..." (British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol 6(1), February 2004)

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Timely--the field of forensic psychology is growing rapidly. Wiley has dominant list in Forensic psychology with many successful clinical treatment manuals. Both the contributors and editor have a great range of experience and a high level of credibility in the field of offender treatment.

Details ISBN0471988588 Language English ISBN-10 0471988588 ISBN-13 9780471988588 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 364.3 Edition 1st Edited by Clive R. Hollin Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title HANDBK OF OFFENDER ASSESSMENT DOI 10.1604/9780471988588 UK Release Date 2000-12-11 AU Release Date 2000-12-11 NZ Release Date 2000-12-11 US Release Date 2000-12-11 Author Clive R. Hollin Pages 624 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Year 2000 Publication Date 2000-12-11 Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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