Table of Contents
About the Contributors ix
Preface xvi
Abbreviations xxiv
Part One Treating and Managing Sexual Offender Risk in Context: Legal and Ethical Concerns 1
1 Sexual Offenses, Law and Morals: Can Behavior and Attitudes Be Changed by Legal and Moral Efforts? 3Knut Hermstad
2 Human Rights and Sexual Offenders 18Bernadette Rainey
3 Sex Offenders, Consent to Treatment and the Politics of Risk 38Phil Fennell
4 Special Offender Groups and Equality: A Duty to Treat Differently? 63Bernadette Rainey
5 Expert Evidence, Ethics and the Law 82Tony Ward
6 Ethical Issues in Sex Offender Research 97Tony Ward and Gwenda Willis
7 Reintegrative and Disintegrative Shaming: Legal and Ethical Issues 113Anne-Marie McAlinden
8 “Castrate ‘Em!”: Treatments, Cures and Ethical Considerations in UK Press Coverage of “Chemical Castration” 129Peter Brown
9 Sentencing Sex Offenders: An International Comparison of Sentencing Policy and Legislation 150Karen Harrison
10 Sentencing and Crime Policy for Sex Offenders in Japan: The Possible Impact of the Lay Judge System 168Mari Hirayama
11 Unique Disadvantages, Unique Needs: Native American Sex Offenders 180Nora V. Demleitner
12 Mandated Reporting Laws: Experiences from Israel 201Sheri Oz
Part Two Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Treatment 217
13 Treatment for Adult Sex Offenders: May We Reject the Null Hypothesis? 219Marnie E. Rice and Grant T. Harris
14 Ethical Issues in Treating Sexual Offenders: Applying Empirically Based Process Features of Treatment Delivery 236W.L. Marshall and L.E. Marshall
15 A Forensic Psychologist’s Involvement in Working with Sex Offenders 251Daniel T. Wilcox
16 Punishment and the Rehabilitation of Sex Offenders: An Ethical Maelstrom 271Tony Ward and Chelsea Rose
17 Distinguishing Moral and Clinical Decisions in Sex Offender Programs: The Good Lives Model and Virtue Ethics 287Bill Glaser
18 Pharmacological Treatment of Sexual Offenders and Its Legal and Ethical Aspects 302Raphaela Basdekis-Jozsa, Daniel Turner and Peer Briken
19 Female Sexual Offenders: The Need for a Gender-Responsive Approach 321Sherry Ashfield, Sheila Brotherston, Hilary Eldridge and Ian Elliott
Part Three Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Management 339
20 A Convergent Approach to Sex Offender Risk Assessment 341Jeffrey C. Singer, Douglas P. Boer and Martin Rettenberger
21 Sex Offender Registration in the United States and the United Kingdom: Emerging Legal and Ethical Debates 356Terry Thomas
22 A More Ethical Way of Working: Circles of Support and Accountability 372Stephen Hanvey and Mechtild Höing
23 Ethical Practice and the Use of the Polygraph in Working with Sex Offenders 388Daniel T. Wilcox
24 Sex Offender Civil Commitment: Legal and Ethical Issues 406Rebecca L. Jackson and Christmas N. Covell
25 Sex Offender Residence Restrictions: A Systematic Review of the Literature 424Daniel Pacheco and J.C. Barnes
26 The Traveling Sex Offender: Monitoring Movements across International Borders 445Terry Thomas
27 Hell is Other People: The Importance of Controlling Pedophilic Activity 462Xanthè Mallett and Jann Karp
Index 479