Description
Sex offenders, and in particular paedophiles, have been the subject of much political and media attention, producing intensive debates about the best way of dealing with them. This book explores these issues, evaluating the measures in use or being considered, including drug treatment, MAPPA, the use of the Sex Offender Register, restorative justice techniques, and treatment programmes. It is concerned with high-risk sex offenders both when they are sentenced to a community order, and also when they are released back into the community after a custodial sentence.
The introductory section opens with a discussion on how terms such as paedophilia are constructed and viewed, and then looks at how government policy regarding sex offending has developed over recent years. Section two looks at issues concerned with risk management, questioning whether enough is being done to monitor the risk that high-risk offenders pose when released into society; whilst section three, on risk reduction covers the main methods of treatment, including sex offender treatment programmes, pharmacotherapy (chemical castration) and restorative and reintegration techniques.
Section Four focuses on specific offender groups; including female sexual offenders, sexual harm by youth, mentally disordered sexual offenders and intellectual disabled offenders. These assess in what ways these offenders are different to the 'norm' and look at how we should be dealing and treating these differences.
The final section looks at social and moral responsibilities, including the patterns, prevention and protection of cyber-sex offences and media constructions of and reactions to paedophilia. In the final chapter the concept of dignity is addressed and the balance between community protection and the rights of sex offenders involved is evaluated.
Table of Contents
Preface, Karen Harrison Part I: Introduction 1. Paedophilia: definitions and aetiology, Karen Harrison, Kieran McCartan and Rachel Manning 2. High-risk sex offenders: issues of policy, Mark Farmer and Ruth Mann Part II: Risk Management 3. Effective multi-agency public protection: learning from the research, Jason Wood and Hazel Kemshall 4. The sex offender register, community notification and some reflections on privacy, Terry Thomas Part III: Treatment and Risk Reduction 5. An introduction to sex offender treatment programmes and their risk reduction efficacy, Sarah Brown 6. The use of pharmacotherapy with high-risk sex offenders, Karen Harrison 7. Restorative justice and the reintegration of high-risk sex offenders, Anne-Marie McAlinden Part IV: Special Offender Groups 8. Female sexual offenders: a special sub-group, Franca Cortoni 9. Enhancing community collaboration to stop sexual harm by youth, Joann Schladale 10. Mentally disordered sex offenders, Brad Booth 11. Intellectualy disabled sexual offenders: subgroup profiling and recidivism after outpatient treatment, Joan van Horn, Jules Mulder and Ine Kusters Part V: Social and Moral Responsibilities 12. Cyber-sex offenders: patterns, prevention and protection, Majid Yar 13. Media constructions of and reactions to paedophilia in society, Kieran Mc Cartan 14. Dignity and dangerousness: sex offenders and the community - human rights in the balance? Bernadette Rainey
