A history of the assessment of sex offenders : 1830-2020 /

Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the field stands. Many of their colleagues do not have an appreciation of why we are where we are. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some hi...

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Yazar: Laws, D. Richard (Yazar)
Materyal Türü: e-Kitap
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Konular:
Sex offenders > History.
Criminal anthropology.
Sex offenders > Psychology.
Social Science > Criminology.
Crime & criminology.
Online Erişim:Full-text access
İçindekiler:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Contemporary psychological assessment: two approaches
  • Part II: Assessment of criminal and sex offenders: 19th and 20th centuries
  • Chapter 2: Criminal statistics and the identification of populations
  • Chapter 3: Offender classification and registration
  • Chapter 4: Phrenology: pseudoscience of the mind or precursor science?
  • Chapter 5: Criminal anthropology: Lombroso's search for criminal man
  • Chapter 6: Anthropometry: Bertillon's measurement of criminal man
  • Chapter 7: Fingerprinting: a document complete in itself
  • Part III: Assessment of sex offenders: 20th and 21st centuries
  • Chapter 8: Penile plethysmography: the search for the gold standard
  • Chapter 9: Viewing time: an alternative to PPG
  • Chapter 10: Attention-based measures: supplementary procedures
  • Chapter 11: Polygraphy: the bogus pipeline to the soul
  • Part IV: Assessment of sex offenders: possible futures
  • Chapter 12: Virtual reality assessment: being there
  • Part V: Conclusions
  • Chapter 13: What we learned in 190 years: 12 takeaways
  • Index.

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