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THE WILEY-BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sex Offender Treatment and Management
Edited by Karen Harrison and Bernadette Rainey
This vital new work on the legal and ethical dimensions of dealing with sex offenders is the first of its kind and fills a gap in the academic literature. It assembles a broad spectrum of research from numerous national jurisdictions including the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, and Israel, reflecting the rising international profile of the subject among academics and policy makers. As well as covering a range of legal and ethical concerns, such as human rights and sentencing policy, the volume features dedicated material on the legal and ethical issues involved in risk treatment and risk management.
Chapters explore a range of current theoretical perspectives and feature content from leading voices on sex offender treatment and management, including contributions from William Marshall, Tony Ward, Doug Boer, Daniel Wilcox, and Marnie Rice. They include analysis of the ethics relating to media coverage of sex offenders, sentencing policy, expert evidence, and consent and equality duties. Authors cover pharmacological approaches to treatment, the registration of offenders, and targeted approaches to management in cases involving women and ethnic minority offenders, with further contributions examining core issues such as the efficacy, or otherwise, of managing and treating those convicted of sexual crimes. This new publication combines the latest theory with a wealth of international perspectives on a high-profile, and highly complex, subject.
From the Back Cover
"This is a wholly unique, comprehensive and indispensable resource for those working in the field of sex offender treatment and research. The Handbook contains fascinating discussions of some of the crucial but often overlooked ethical issues in the field written by an all-star line-up of contributors from the worlds of research and practice. Precisely the contribution that has been needed in the area of sex offender treatment." Professor Shadd Maruna, Director of the Institute of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Queen's University Belfast
"This Handbook represents a major landmark in the sex offending domain, a single volume devoted to ethical and legal aspects of treatment and management. The chapters are, without exception, first class and represent thoughtful and cutting edge analyses of a variety of important issues. I thoroughly recommend it for practitioners, students, and researchers." Professor Tony Ward, Victoria University of Wellington
Karen Harrison is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Hull, UK. She has published several articles on the use of pharmacotherapy with high-risk sex offenders, is the author of Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders (2011) and is the editor of Managing High-Risk Sex Offenders in The Community (2010). Dr Harrison is an editorial board member of the Journal of Sexual Aggression and the Prison Service Journal as well as associate editor of Sexual Offender Treatment.
Bernadette Rainey is a Lecturer at Cardiff Law School, UK, and the Director of the Cardiff Law School Centre for Human Rights and Public Law. She has published work on several areas of human rights law, including equality duties and sexual offenders.
