Assessing Risk in Sex Offenders (PDF)

About the Authors. Preface: the Extent of Sexual Violence and the risk Approach. Acknowledgements. Part I: Background, Developmental Frameworks and Predictive Accuracy. 1. Characteristics of Sexual Offenders. 2. Developmental Frameworks and Functional Analysis. 3. Methodological Considerations in Measuring Predictive Accuracy. Part II: Static Risk Factors. 4. Static Factors Associated with Sexual Recidivism. 5. Actuarial and Clinically Guides Measures. Part III: Dynamic Risk Factors. 6. Dynamic Factors Associated with Sexual Recidivism. 7. Treatment and Sexual Recidivism. Part IV: Structuring Risk Assessment. 8. Aetiology and Risk. Part V: Policy and Practice. 9. Implementing Risk Management Policy. 10. Improving Risk Assessment Estimates. 11. Strengths Based Approaches to Risk Assessment. References. Index.

Leam A. Craig, PhD, MSc, BA (Hons), CSci, AFBPsS, EuroPsy, C.Psychol (Forensic) is a consultant Forensic Psychologist and Partner of Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. He is the holder of the European Certificate in Psychology. His current practice includes direct services to forensic NHS Adult Mental Health trusts and consultancy to Prison and Probation Services. He acts as an expert witness to civil and criminal courts in the assessment of sexual and violent offenders. he coordinates community-based treatment programmes for sexual offenders with learning disabilities in NHS and probation settings and acts as a consultant to private forensic learning disability units. He has published numerous empirical articles and chapters in a range of research professionals journals. He has recently completed a book with Professors Anthony Beech and Kevin Browne entitled Assessment and treatment of Sex Offenders: A Handbook, and is currently working on Assessment and treatment of Sexual Offenders with Intellectual disabilities: A Handbook, Wiley-Blackwell, with Professors Kevin Browne and William Lindsay. He is an honorary member of the teaching and research staff at the centre for Forensic and family Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.

Kevin D. Browne, PhD, MSc, MEd, BSc, C.Biol, C.Psychol (Foresnic) is both a chartered Biologist and Chartered Psychologist employed by the University of Liverpool as Chair of Forensic and Child Psychology and Head of the World Health Organisation Collaboration Centre on child Care and Protection in the UK. He has been researching family violence and child maltreatment for 30 years and has published extensively on the prevention of violence to children, acting as Co-Editor (with Prof. M.A. Lynch) of Child Abuse Review from 1992 to 1999. After 12 years as an Executive Councilor of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) he is now consultant to the European Commission, UNICEF, World Bank and the WHO. He

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