The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of legal and ethical aspects of sex offender treatment and management / edited by Karen Harrison and Bernadette Rainey.

Includes index.

Sexual offenders, law, and morals : can behaviour and attitudes be changed by legal and moral efforts? / Knut Hermstad -- Human rights and sexual offenders / Bernadette Rainey -- Sex offenders, consent to treatment, and the politics of risk / Phil Fennell -- Special offender groups and equality : a duty to treat differently? / Bernadette Rainey -- Expert evidence, ethics, and the law / Tony Ward -- Ethical issues in sex offender research / Tony Ward and Gwenda Willis -- Reintegrative and disintegrative shaming : legal and ethical issues / Anne-Marie McAlinden -- Castrate 'em? : treatments, cures, and ethical considerations in UK press coverage of chemical castration / Peter Brown -- Sentencing sex offenders : an international comparison of sentencing policy and legislation / Karen Harrison -- Sentencing and criminal justice policy for sexual crimes in Japan : possible impact of the lay judge system / Mari Hirayama -- Unique disadvantages, unique needs : Native American sex offenders / Nora V. Demleitner -- Mandated reporting laws : experiences from Israel / Sheri Oz -- Treatment for adult sex offenders : may we reject the null hypothesis? / Marnie E. Rice and Grant T. Harris -- Ethical issues in treating sexual offenders : applying empirically-based process features of treatment delivery / W.L. Marshall and L.E. Marshall -- A forensic psychologist's involvement in working with sex offenders / Daniel T. Wilcox -- Punishment and the rehabilitation of sex offenders : an ethical maelstrom / Tony Ward and Chelsea Rose -- Distinguishing moral and clinical decisions in sex offender programmes : the good lives model and virtue ethics / Bill Glaser -- Pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders and its legal and ethical aspects / Raphaela Basdekis-Jozsa, Daniel Turner, and Peer Briken -- Female sexual offenders : the need for a gender responsive approach / Sherry Ashfield, Sheila Brotherston, Hilary Eldridge and Ian Elliott -- A convergent approach to sex offender risk assessment / Jeffrey C. Singer, Douglas P. Boer, and Martin Rettenberger -- Sex offender registration in the USA and the UK : emerging legal and ethical debates / Terry Thomas -- A more ethical way of working : circles of support and accountability / Stephen Hanvey and Mechtild H'ing -- Ethical practice and the use of the polygraph in working with sex offenders / Daniel T. Wilcox -- Sex offender civil commitment : legal and ethical issues / Rebecca L. Jackson and Christmas N. Covell -- Sex offender residence restrictions : a systematic review of the literature / Daniel Pacheco and J.C. Barnes -- The travelling sex offender : monitoring movements across international borders / Terry Thomas -- Hell is other people : the importance of controlling paedophilic activity / Xanth Mallett and Jann Karp.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This handbook combines the latest theory on a high-profile, complex subject in criminology, exploring the legal and ethical dimensions of society's response to sex offenders in jurisdictions from the USA to Japan. The first publication to offer a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of legal and ethical issues relating to sex offender treatment and managementCovers a range of related issues, from media coverage to equality dutiesPresents research from numerous national jurisdictions including the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Germany, Netherlan.