The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment

This "e;Essential Handbook"e; provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger management, school programs, and family-based approaches. Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is a concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.

This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from itscompanion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessmentand Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatmentit covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violentoffenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, andproperty offenders. A range of treatment approaches are alsoincluded, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, angermanagement, school programs, and family-based approaches.Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, TheEssential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is aconcise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics andresearchers working with offenders across a range of settings.

About the Editor.List of Contributors.Preface.Foreword by David P. Farrington.Chapter 1: To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective(Clive R. Hollin).PART I: RISK ASSESSMENT.Chapter 2: Assessing violence risk in mentally and personalitydisordered individuals (Christopher D.Webster and GerardBailes).Chapter 3: Sex offender risk assessment (R. Karl Hanson).PART II: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.Chapter 4: Behavioral approaches to correctional management andrehabilitation (Michael A. Milan).Chapter 5: Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning andrehabilitation programme (David Robinson and Frank J.Porporino).Chapter 6: Family-based treatments (Cynthia Cupit Swenson, ScottW. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald).Chapter 7: Delinquency prevention programs in schools (DavidLeMarquand and Richard E. Tremblay).Chapter 8: Skills training (Clive R. Hollin and Emma J.Palmer).Chapter 9: Anger treatment with offenders (Raymond W. NovacoMark Ramm and Laura Black).PART III: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS.Chapter 10: Adult sexual offenders against women (William L.Marshall).Chapter 11: The assessment and treatment of sexual offendersagainst children (Tony Ward, Stephen M. Hudson and Thomas R.Keenan).Chapter 12: Firesetters (David J. Kolko).Chapter 13: Assessment and treatment:Violent offenders (Devon L.L. Polaschek and Nikki Reynolds).Chapter 14: Offenders with major mental disorders (SheilaghHodgins).Chapter 15: Offenders with personality disorders (MaryMcMurran).Chapter 16: Property offences (James McGuire).Epilogue.Index.