Desistance from sex offending alternatives to throwing away the keys

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...

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1. Verfasser: Laws, D. Richard (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ward, Tony (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, London Guilford Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-298) and index
Beschreibung:XII, 306 S.
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ISBN:9781606239353
978-1-60623-935-3
160623935X
1-60623-935-X