Criminal Psychology : a Beginner's Guide

In the USA, such concerns led to Megan’s Law in 1996, which allows private and personal information on those registered as sex o ...

histories of these people, which will then, hopefully, show whether there is a childhood trigger for sexual offending. Comparis ...

significant proportion were – around a quarter of rapists and almost two-thirds of child abusers according to one study. Rapists ...

arousal to non-deviant stimuli. More recent research shows that deviant fantasies are linked to mood, with this type of fantasy ...

176 criminal psychology: a beginner’s guide Step One – motivation to abuse According to the model, there are three reasons why o ...

In this section the treatment, supervision and management of sex offenders will be discussed. It will cover how offenders are se ...

One can clearly see here how this risk assessment tool is using the research reviewed earlier in this chapter about offenders’ b ...

patterns of thought which have been shown in research to be con- nected with sexually abusive behaviour and sexual offending. lo ...

perspective and then to experience compassion for the other person. Sex offenders tend to lack the ability to be empathic. One r ...

deviant fantasies when they are initially assessed. Therefore, changing deviant preferences is only attempted when this is shown ...

Prisons and probation areas in England and Wales run treatment programmes for sex offenders. Programmes in prisons are for offen ...

another, something which is especially important for rapists in the group to see. The programme is delivered in eighty-six two-h ...

reoffending or in changing attitudes and behaviour and, as this is the case, they should not be used. The argument is that you w ...

comply with these standards could result in an offender being returned to custody. Recent laws in the UK have shown a move towar ...

social services, housing, health and youth offending teams. Since 2004 the MAPPPs must also have two lay people on the panels; t ...

research skills of criminal psychologists are also used in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment, which can then feed into i ...

Cobley, C. (2000) Sex offenders: Law, policy and practice. Bristol: Jordans. Marshall, W. L., Anderson, D. and Fernandez, Y. M. ...

index Note to Index: cr. ps. is criminal psychologist 189 A academic role of cr. ps.13–14 Achieving Best Evidence (ABE 2002, upd ...

Control Question Test (CQT) 80–81, 83 Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) 152 Accreditation Panel (CSAP) 154–155 crime analysis ...

expert witnesses 10–11, 87–88 eyewitness testimony 60–67, 87–101 aspects of crime 92–95 aspects of investigation 95–96 aspects o ...