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Author Doren, Dennis M., author.

Title Evaluating sex offenders : a manual for civil commitments and beyond / Dennis M. Doren
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2002
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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Online access: SAGE SAGE Research Methods Core
Contents Relevant components of sex offender civil commitment laws: the evaluation "referral questions" -- Procedures for conducting the assessment -- Diagnostic issues within sex offender civil commitment assessments: defining relevant paraphilias -- Diagnostic issues within sex offender civil commitment assessments: diagnostic issues beyond the paraphilias -- Using risk assessment instrumentation -- Recidivism base rates -- Clinical adjustments -- The evaluation report and court testimony -- Ethical issues
Summary & Nbsp; Evaluating Sex Offenders is the first and only "how to" book describing the complete sex offender civil commitment evaluation. Aimed at helping practitioners, clinicians, counselors, and parole officers assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted of a sex crime, the text offers readers a step-by-step description of what examiners need to know, including information gathering, interviewing offenders, and writing reports. Chapter topics include: defining risk; data gathering; diagnostic issues; recidivism base rates; risk factor lists; actuarial scales; instrumentation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Sex offenders -- United States
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sexual Abuse & Harassment.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
Sex offenders
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002000199
ISBN 9781452212289
1452212287
9781412990059
141299005X
1322412111
9781322412115