Why do men rape women? What causes an adult to sexually molest a child? Understanding why sexual deviance occurs, how it develops, and how it changes over time is essential in preventing sexual predation and designing intervention programs for relapse prevention.

Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies addresses the biological, developmental, cultural, and learning factors in the genesis of sexual deviancy and links those theories to interventions with sex offenders. Edited by renowned sexual behavior experts Tony Ward, D. Richard Laws, and Stephen M. Hudson, this exceptional volume is divided into two sections. The first section covers explanations for sexual deviance, including ethical issues and classification systems for sexually deviant disorders. The second section addresses responses to sexual deviance, including traditional and modern intervention approaches.

An eminent group of scholars, researchers, and clinicians examine

The "whys" behind sexual deviance
Controversies surrounding offender rehabilitation
The relationship between theory and practice
All paraphilias including molestation and sexual assault
Cutting edge developments in etiology, rehabilitation, and practice

Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies provides a comprehensive view of the psychological, biological, cultural, and situational factors that predispose sex offenders. Some of the world?s leading authorities in the area of understanding and treating sex offenders discuss, debate, and review the ideas and values underpinning research and treatment of sexual deviance.

Tailored for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses on abnormal psychology, psychopathology, forensic psychology, and criminology, Sexual Deviance: Issues and Controversies is also essential reading for psychologists, criminal justice professionals, and policy makers.

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Publisher

SAGE Publications, Inc

Year

2002

Print ISBN

9780761927327

eBook ISBN

9781452245638

Edition

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

Psychotherapy

Index

Psychology

Cover
Contents
Introduction: Theoretical Issues in Sexual Deviance
References
Part I - Explanations of Sexual Deviance
Chapter 1 - Explaining Child Sexual Abuse: Integration and Elaboration
Chapter 2 - Good Lives and the Rehabilitation of Sexual Offenders
Chapter 3 - Back to the Future?: Evolutionary Explanations of Rape
Chapter 4 - Behavioral Economic Approaches to the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Deviation
Chapter 5 - Penile Plethysmography: Will We Ever Get It Right?
Chapter 6 - Cultural Components of Practice: Reflexive Responses to Diversity and Difference
Chapter 7 - Developmental Antecedents of Sexual Offending
Chapter 8 - Cognitive Distortions, Schemas, and Implicit Theories
Chapter 9 - The Classification of Sex Offenders
Chapter 10 - Empathy and Victim Empathy
Part II - Responses to Sexual Deviance
Chapter 11 - Research and Practice With Adolescent Sexual Offenders: Dilemmas and Directions
Chapter 12 - The Promise and the Peril of Sex Offender Risk Assessment
Chapter 13 - Treatment Models for Sex Offenders: A Move Toward a Formulation-Based Approach
Chapter 14 - Responsivity Factors in Sexual Offender Treatment
Chapter 15 - Integrating Pharmacological Treatments
Chapter 16 - Harm Reduction and Sexual Offending: Is an Intraparadigmatic Shift Possible?
Chapter 17 - Sexual Offending Is a Public Health Problem: Are We Doing Enough?
Chapter 18 - Enhancing Relapse Prevention Through the Effective Management of Sex Offenders in the Community
Chapter 19 - The Risk-Need Model of Offender Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

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