The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment [Paperback]

This Essential Handbook provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger management, school programs, and family-based approaches.

Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment is a concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.About the Editor.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Foreword by David P. Farrington.

Chapter 1: To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective (Clive R. Hollin).

PART I: RISK ASSESSMENT.

Chapter 2: Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality disordered individuals (Christopher D.Webster and Gerard Bailes).

Chapter 3: Sex offender risk assessment (R. Karl Hanson).

PART II: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.

Chapter 4: Behavioral approaches to correctional management and rehabilitation (Michael A. Milan).

Chapter 5: Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning and rehabilitation programme (David Robinson and Frank J. Porporino).

Chapter 6: Family-based treatments (Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Scott W. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald).

Chapter 7: Delinquency prevention programs in schools (David LeMarquand and Richard E. Tremblay).

Chapter 8: Skills training (Clive R. Hollin and Emma J. Palmer).

Chapter 9: Anger treatl“,