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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 (violent and sexual); the evaluation report; presenting in court; ethical issues.
Diagnostic Issues within Sex Offender Civil Commitment Assessments: Defining Relevant Paraphilias
Diagnostic Issues within Sex Offender Civil Commitment Assessments: Defining Relevant Paraphilias
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Defending the Labels We Use
Some diagnostic labels that clinicians employ do not seem to diminish the people to whom they are applied. Depression, for instance, tends to elicit more sympathy and understanding from others than a pejorative attribution. The diagnoses common to sex offender civil commitment evaluations are different, however. Paraphilias and personality disorders are often seen as descriptions of how the ...
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