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.
Table of Content
Part I: Explanations of Sexual Deviance
1. Explaining Child Sexual Abuse: Integration and Elaboration – Tony Ward and Laura Sorbello
2. Good Lives and the Rehabilitation of Sexual Offenders – Tony Ward and Claire A. Stewart
3. Back to the Future? Evolutionary Explanations of Rape – Richard Siegert and Tony Ward
4. Behavioral Economic Approaches to the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Deviation – D. Richard Laws
5. Penile Plethysmography: Will We Ever Get it Right? – D. Richard Laws
6. Cultural Components of Practice: Reflexive Responses to Diversity and Difference – Marie Connolly
7. Developmental Antecedents of Sexual Offending – Thomas Keenan and Tony Ward
8. Cognitive Distortions, Schemas, and Implicit Theories – Ruth E. Mann and Anthony R. Beech
9. The Classification of Sexual Offenders – Devon L. L. Polaschek
10. Empathy and Victim Empathy – Devon L. L. Polaschek
Part II: Responses to Sexual Deviance
11. Research and Practice with Adolescent Sexual Offenders: Dilemmas and Directions – Robin Jones
12. The Promise and the Peril of Sex Offender Risk Assessment – Stephen Hart, D. Richard Laws, and P. Randall Kropp
13. Treatment Models for Sex Offenders: A Move Towards a Formulation-Based Approach – Christopher Drake and Tony Ward
14. Responsivity Factors in Sex Offender Treatment – Michael Proeve
15. Integrating Pharmacological Treatments – William Glaser
16. Harm Reduction and Sexual Offending: Is a Intraparadigmatic Shift Possible? – D. Richard Laws
17. Sexual Offending is a Public Health Problem: Are We Doing Enough? – D. Richard Laws
18. Enhancing Relapse Prevention Through the Effective Management of Sex Offenders in the Community – Astrid Birgden, Karen Owen, and Bea Raymond
19. The Risk-Need Model of Offender Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis – Tony Ward and Mark Brown
About the author
Stephen M Hudson, Ph D, Dip Clin Psyc, was Director of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He was instrumental in the establishment of New Zealand’s first specialized treatment unit for child molesters at Rolleston Prison, Kia Marama, in 1989. His research work was grouped into three major areas: intimacy and attachment style, cognitive distortions, and offence pathways/relapse prevention models. The results of these research projects were published in more than 80 books, book chapters and scholarly articles. He co edited a number of important books in the sexual offending area, including Remaking relapse prevention, Sage, (with D.R Laws and T. Ward, 2000), the Sourcebook of treatment programs for sexual offenders, Plenum (with W. L. Marshall, Y. A. Fernandez, and S. M. Hudson, 1998), and The juvenile sex offender, Guilford (with H. E. Barbaree, and W. L. Marshall). Dr Hudson died after a short battle with cancer on 1 November 2001.
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