Offending Identities: Sex Offenders' Perspectives on Their Treatment and Management
This book aims to explore sex offenders' perspectives of the way they are treated and managed. Whilst a great deal has been written about sex offenders and their treatment within the criminal justice system, few studies have approached the issues through an understanding of offenders' own views and perspectives on their offending behaviour and others' responses to it. This book aims to redress this imbalance. The book is based on in-depth interviews with 32 convicted male sex offenders attendin…
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- Full title :Offending Identities : Sex Offenders' Perspectives on Their Treatment and Management.
Summary
This book aims to explore sex offenders' perspectives of the way they are treated and managed. Whilst a great deal has been written about sex offenders and their treatment within the criminal justice system, few studies have approached the issues through an understanding of offenders' own views and perspectives on their offending behaviour and others' responses to it. This book aims to redress this imbalance. The book is based on in-depth interviews with 32 convicted male sex offenders attending three different sex offender treatment programmes (the prison based Sex Offender Treatment Programm.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Willan Pub
- Place of Publication:Cullompton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (217 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781843926443, 184392644X
- oclc:ocn609842610
- LC Classification:HV6593.G7
- Dewey Decimal:616.8583
Table of Contents
Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Tables and extracts; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I; 2 Managing the 'sex offender'; 3 Treating the 'sex offender'; Part II Sex offenders' perspectives; 4 Sex offenders' identities; 5 Motivation to change and treatment attendance; 6 Honesty and conformity in a group setting; 7 Denial, identity and 'what works'; 8 Managing future risk; Part III Conclusions; 9 Closing remarks; Bibliography; Index.
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