About the Contributors ix
Preface xvi
Abbreviations xxiv
Part One Treating and Managing Sexual Offender Risk in Context: Legal and Ethical Concerns 1
1 Sexual Offenses, Law and Morals: Can Behavior and Attitudes Be
Changed by Legal and Moral Efforts? 3
Knut Hermstad
2 Human Rights and Sexual Offenders 18
Bernadette Rainey
3 Sex Offenders, Consent to Treatment and the Politics of Risk
38
Phil Fennell
4 Special Offender Groups and Equality: A Duty to Treat
Differently? 63
Bernadette Rainey
5 Expert Evidence, Ethics and the Law 82
Tony Ward
6 Ethical Issues in Sex Offender Research 97
Tony Ward and Gwenda Willis
7 Reintegrative and Disintegrative Shaming: Legal and Ethical
Issues 113
Anne-Marie McAlinden
8 “Castrate ‘Em!”: Treatments, Cures and Ethical Considerations
in UK Press Coverage of “Chemical Castration” 129
Peter Brown
9 Sentencing Sex Offenders: An International Comparison of
Sentencing Policy and Legislation 150
Karen Harrison
10 Sentencing and Crime Policy for Sex Offenders in Japan: The
Possible Impact of the Lay Judge System 168
Mari Hirayama
11 Unique Disadvantages, Unique Needs: Native American Sex
Offenders 180
Nora V. Demleitner
12 Mandated Reporting Laws: Experiences from Israel 201
Sheri Oz
Part Two Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Treatment 217
13 Treatment for Adult Sex Offenders: May We Reject the Null
Hypothesis? 219
Marnie E. Rice and Grant T. Harris
14 Ethical Issues in Treating Sexual Offenders: Applying
Empirically Based Process Features of Treatment Delivery 236
W.L. Marshall and L.E. Marshall
15 A Forensic Psychologist’s Involvement in Working with Sex
Offenders 251
Daniel T. Wilcox
16 Punishment and the Rehabilitation of Sex Offenders: An
Ethical Maelstrom 271
Tony Ward and Chelsea Rose
17 Distinguishing Moral and Clinical Decisions in Sex Offender
Programs: The Good Lives Model and Virtue Ethics 287
Bill Glaser
18 Pharmacological Treatment of Sexual Offenders and Its Legal
and Ethical Aspects 302
Raphaela Basdekis-Jozsa, Daniel Turner and Peer Briken
19 Female Sexual Offenders: The Need for a Gender-Responsive
Approach 321
Sherry Ashfield, Sheila Brotherston, Hilary Eldridge and Ian
Elliott
Part Three Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Management 339
20 A Convergent Approach to Sex Offender Risk Assessment 341
Jeffrey C. Singer, Douglas P. Boer and Martin Rettenberger
21 Sex Offender Registration in the United States and the United
Kingdom: Emerging Legal and Ethical Debates 356
Terry Thomas
22 A More Ethical Way of Working: Circles of Support and
Accountability 372
Stephen Hanvey and Mechtild Höing
23 Ethical Practice and the Use of the Polygraph in Working with
Sex Offenders 388
Daniel T. Wilcox
24 Sex Offender Civil Commitment: Legal and Ethical Issues
406
Rebecca L. Jackson and Christmas N. Covell
25 Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: A Systematic Review of
the Literature 424
Daniel Pacheco and J.C. Barnes
26 The Traveling Sex Offender: Monitoring Movements across
International Borders 445
Terry Thomas
27 Hell is Other People: The Importance of Controlling
Pedophilic Activity 462
Xanthè Mallett and Jann Karp
Index 479
Karen Harrison is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law atthe University of Hull, UK. She has published several articles onthe use of pharmacotherapy with high-risk sex offenders and is theauthor of Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of SeriousSexual and Violent Offenders (2011) and is the editor ofManaging High Risk Sex Offenders in The Community (2010). DrHarrison is an editorial board member of the Journal of SexualAggression and the Prison Service Journal as well asassociate editor of Sexual Offender Treatment. Bernadette Rainey is a Lecturer at Cardiff Law School,UK, and the Director of the Cardiff Law School Centre for HumanRights and Public Law. She has published work on several areas ofhuman rights law, including equality duties and sexualoffenders.
...the book is an important collection of thought-provoking essays that stimulate and challenge policy makers, academics and practice-based readers. (The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 5 January 2015) This comprehensive collection of chapters from a stellar cast of contributors clearly fills a gap in the literature and brings together some genuinely international thinking . (Prison Service Journal, 1 July 2013)
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