Preventing Sexual Violence How Society Should Cope with Sex Offenders

Preventing Sexual Violence: How Society Should Cope With Sex Offenders systematically critiques the current treatment of sex offenders in an effort to determine how best to prevent re-offending without infringing on the rights of citizens. The book offers the latest data about sex offenders and the novel and powerful legal measures enacted to prevent sexual violence. In recent years, states have initiated programs for sex offenders involving involuntary commitment, mandatory registration, community notification, and even chemical castration. The author identifies which new strategies work, which strategies are based on false assumptions, and which should be modified or abandoned. In addition to recommending ways to improve programs, the author focuses on an effective risk management program that could be expanded and reproduced nationwide. The author details how recent research has made progress in identifying which groups of sexually violent offenders pose the greatest risk for re-offending, andhow to effectively reduce that risk for this population. This book provides criminal justice professionals, clinicians working with sexually violent offenders, and policy makers with a clear and realistic plan for humanely coping with sex offenders and reducing further sexual violence. Primary audience: Psychiatrists and forensic psychologists, mental health practitioners who treat sex offenders; lawyers and criminal justice professionals. Secondary audience: Policymakers; students in classes on therapeutic jurisprudence or therapy and treatment of sex offender.La Fond, John Q. is the author of 'Preventing Sexual Violence How Society Should Cope with Sex Offenders', published 2005 under ISBN 9781591471721 and ISBN 1591471729.