Author: Robert D. Hanser
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: community, offenders, needs, special
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-03-03
List price: $63.20
ISBN-10: 0131188720
ISBN-13: 9780131188723

The first of its kind, Special Needs Offenders in the Community, First Edition, offers a strong community-based orientation and addresses both public safety and treatment issues related to a variety of special offender typologies. Drawing from the fields of criminal justice, psychology, and counseling, the text discusses 12 unique offender types and places a strong emphasis on assessment, diagnosis and outcomes. This new text offers thorough coverage of assessment and classification instruments, shows how to modify existing supervision and treatment practices, and emphasizes the theme of commu

Author: D. Richard Laws PhD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: offenders, sex, prevention, relapse
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 1989-06-16
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0898623812
ISBN-13: 9780898623819

RELAPSE PREVENTION WITH SEX OFFENDERS systematically presents and analyzes the core components of RP for this population. The first text to focus exclusively on relapse prevention for sex offenders, this authoritative compilation of current assessment and treatment approaches provides practitioners working in the field with a practical, step-by-step guide to established interventions.

Author: Herschel Prins
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: patients, deviants, offenders
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-04-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1583918256
ISBN-13: 9781583918258

This third edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal. Using up-to-date case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between abnormality and criminal behaviour, the extent to which this relationship is used or misused in the criminal courts, and the various facilities that are currently available for the management/incarceration of offenders/patients. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offen

Author: Dr. Ruth E. Masters
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: offenders, justice, criminal, counseling
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-09-19
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 0761929347
ISBN-13: 9780761929345

Counseling Criminal Justice Offenders, Second Edition takes a practical view of offenders, their problems, and the difficulties counselors face working with them in criminal justice settings. Author Ruth E. Masters examines criminal justice counseling on an individual and group basis and in a variety of settings such as prisons, probation and parole agencies, diversion programs, group homes, halfway houses, prerelease facilities, and U.S. jails. The book also explores the many faces of offenders — young, old, male, female, and across many cultures. The Second Edition of Counseling Criminal

Author: Louis N. Jones
Publisher: Conquest Books
Keywords: offenders, minister, church, equipping
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 1998-12-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0965662500
ISBN-13: 9780965662505

Prison ministry does not end at the prison gates.  In any area of the country where there is a prison or a jail, or where ex-offenders reside, there is a need to help incarcerated men and women make a successful transition from prison to society.  These 104-page manual gives practical, Biblically-based instructions on starting such a ministry, whether through the local church, or as a separate ministry working with the local church.

Authors:Dennis Howitt, Kerry Sheldon,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: internet, offenders, sex
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-09-24
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0470028017
ISBN-13: 9780470028018

Online, the opportunity to commit a crime is never more than a few clicks away. Sex Offenders and the Internet explores the nature of online sex offenders in order to help practitioners understand and treat this new category of client. Kerry Sheldon and Dennis Howitt examine the research base by reviewing case studies and psychological profiles, with a particular focus on paedophilic Internet sex offenders. Issues covered include child pornography, the often overlooked ‘excuses’ for paedophilia, and how we can move forward. The result is a book that comprehensively details the nature of In

Author: Anna Salter
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: offenders, sex, rapists, pedophiles, predators
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-03
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0465071732
ISBN-13: 9780465071739

What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths about sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our families and ourselves.