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Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies addresses the biological, developmental, cultural, and learning factors in the genesis of sexual deviancy and links those theories to interventions with sex offenders. Edited by renowned sexual behavior experts Tony Ward, D. Richard Laws, and Stephen M. Hudson, this exceptional volume is divided into two sections. The first section covers explanations for sexual deviance, including ethical issues and classification systems for sexually deviant disorders. The second section addresses responses to sexual deviance, including traditional and modern intervention approaches.
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Why do men rape women? What causes an adult to sexually molest a child? Understanding why sexual deviance occurs, how it develops, and how it changes over time is essential in preventing sexual predation and designing intervention programs for relapse prevention.
Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies addresses the biological, developmental, cultural, and learning factors in the genesis of sexual deviancy and links those theories to interventions with sex offenders. Edited by renowned sexual behavior experts Tony Ward, D. Richard Laws, and Stephen M. Hudson, this exceptional volume is divided into two sections. The first section covers explanations for sexual deviance, including ethical issues and classification systems for sexually deviant disorders. The second section addresses responses to sexual deviance, including traditional and modern intervention approaches.
An eminent group of scholars, researchers, and clinicians examine The whys behind sexual deviance Controversies surrounding offender rehabilitation The relationship between theory and practice All paraphilias including molestation and sexual assault Cutting edge developments in etiology, rehabilitation, and practice
Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies provides a comprehensive view of the psychological, biological, cultural, and situational factors that predispose sex offenders. Some of the world's leading authorities in the area of understanding and treating sex offenders discuss, debate, and review the ideas and values underpinning research and treatment of sexual deviance.
Tailored for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses on abnormal psychology, psychopathology, forensicpsychology, and criminology, Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies is also essential reading for psychologists, criminal justice professionals, and policy makers.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Theoretical issues in sexual deviance /Tony Ward, D. Richard Laws, Stephen M. Huson --PART I. EXPLANATIONS OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE --Explaining child sexual abuse: integration and elaboration /Tony Ward, Laura Sorbello --Good lives and the rehabilitation of sexual offenders /Tony Ward, Claire A. Stewart --Back to the future? Evolutionary explanations of rape /Richard Siegert, Tony Ward --Behavioral economic approaches to the assessment and treatment of sexual deviation /D. Richard Laws --Penile plethysmography: will we ever get it right? /D. Richard Laws --Cultural components of practice: reflexive responses to diversity and difference /Marie Connolly --Developmental antecedents of sexual offending /Thomas Keenan, Tony Ward --Cognitive distortions, schemas, and implicit theories /Ruth E. Mann, Anthony R. Beech --Classification of sex offenders /Devon L. L. Polaschek --Empathy and victim empathy /Devon L. L. Polaschek --PART II. RESPONSES TO SEXUAL DEVIANCE --Research and practice with adolescent sexual offenders: dilemmas and directions /Robin Jones --Promise and the peril of sex offender risk assessment /Stephen Hart, D. Richard Laws, P. Randall Kropp --Treatment models for sex offenders: a move toward a formulation-based approach /Christopher R. Drake, Tony Ward --Responsivity factors in sexual offender treatment /Michael J. Proeve --Integrating pharmacological treatments /William Glaser --Harm reduction and sexual offending: is an intraparadigmatic shift possible? ;Sexual offending is a public health problem: are we doing enough? /D. Richard Laws --Enhancing relapse prevention through the effective management of sex offenders in the community /Astrid Birgden, Karen Owen, Bea Raymond --Risk-need model of offender rehabilitation: a critical analysis /Tony Ward, Mark Brown