Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide

Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide

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Editorial Reviews

Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide is a handy resource for forensic practitioners responsible for assessing an managing sexual offenders at risk of recidivism. It covers the risk factors associated with sexual recidivism, evaluates risk assessment approaches and offers guidance on how to conduct forensic evaluations.

Written by an expert author team, Assessing risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide examines:

  • The characteristics of sexual offenders
  • Methodological considerations in measuring predictive accuracy
  • Static and dynamic factors
  • Structured risk assessments
  • Treatment of sexual offenders
  • Policy and practices
Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders: A Practitioner's Guide is an essential resource for clinical and forensic psychologists, forensic psychiatrists, undergraduate and postgraduate students in forensic and clinical psychology, and prison and probation officers.

Customer Reviews

Highly Important Book

Reviewed by Danilo A. Baltieri, 2008-06-21

This book by Craig et al. is an important contribution to the systematic study on the recidivism risk among sexual offenders.
It brings the main methods developed to evaluate and manage these people whithin a clinical or forensic context.
Static and dynamic risk factors associated with recidivism are adequately reviewed and strenghts and weaknesses of the instruments are also pointed out.
This book is an ideal companion for professionals who treat these people. Certainly, readers will use it as a comprehensive reference text, a book for evaluating evidences, a tool to bring new perspectives to many cases, and as an aid in preparing for criminal trials.