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Supervision of the Sex Offender
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Supervision of the Sex Offender
Community Management, Risk Assessment, and Treatment
by Georgia F. Cumming & Robert J. McGrath
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Expanded and thoroughly updated, the second edition of Supervision of the Sex Offender offers a wealth of practical advice and best-practice strategies for supervising sex offenders. The authors have drawn upon their combined 50 years of experience in this field to create a guide that is comprehensive, yet easy to use. Supervision includes the latest information on the following topics:
- Relapse prevention supervision strategies
- Current risk assessment instruments and approaches
- Guidelines for assessing family reunification readiness
- Criteria for choosing effective treatment programs
- Community notification laws and strategies
- New research on why individuals commit sex offenses
- New sex offenders typologies
- Sex offender behavior across the life span
- Uses of plethysmography, viewing time measures, and polygraphy
Supervision of the Sex Offender, Second Edition, is a title you will continually be pulling from your book shelf for the timely and time-tested methods and techniques you can use for supervising sex offenders in the community. (2005)
- Explain the key principles of effective correctional practice with individuals who commit sex offenses
- List the major elements of a Presentence Investigation report
- Describe criteria for selecting risk assessment instruments
- Outline how to develop a case plan
- Describe the characteristics of effective sex offender treatment programs
- Discuss key family reunification considerations
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