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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, forensic psychology, and criminology, Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies is also essential reading for psychologists, criminal justice professionals, and policy makers.
Empathy and Victim Empathy
Empathy and Victim Empathy
Until the last decade, theoretical ideas about the role of empathy in sexual offending differed little in sophistication from common sense or folk theory. Many people think that the only basis on which someone could knowingly inflict on another human being the harm associated with sexual abuse, would be because the perpetrator was indifferent to the consequences for the victim. So, it is appealing intuitively that sex offenders have empathy deficits, and that these deficits will have a causal role in their offending. This intuition has been widely accepted by treatment providers, with the inclusion of empathy-focused interventions in rehabilitation programs. However, advances in research over the past decade suggest that ...
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