Sexual Deviance
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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.
Contents
Part I: Explanations of Sexual Deviance
- 1. Explaining Child Sexual Abuse: Integration and Elaboration
- 2. Good Lives and the Rehabilitation of Sexual Offenders
- 3. Back to the Future? Evolutionary Explanations of Rape
- 4. Behavioral Economic Approaches to the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Deviation
- 5. Penile Plethysmography: Will We Ever Get it Right?
- 6. Cultural Components of Practice: Reflexive Responses to Diversity and Difference
- 7. Developmental Antecedents of Sexual Offending
- 8. Cognitive Distortions, Schemas, and Implicit Theories
- 9. The Classification of Sexual Offenders
- 10. Empathy and Victim Empathy
Part II: Responses to Sexual Deviance
- 11. Research and Practice with Adolescent Sexual Offenders: Dilemmas and Directions
- 12. The Promise and the Peril of Sex Offender Risk Assessment
- 13. Treatment Models for Sex Offenders: A Move Towards a Formulation-Based Approach
- 14. Responsivity Factors in Sex Offender Treatment
- 15. Integrating Pharmacological Treatments
- 16. Harm Reduction and Sexual Offending: Is a Intraparadigmatic Shift Possible?
- 17. Sexual Offending is a Public Health Problem: Are We Doing Enough?
- 18. Enhancing Relapse Prevention Through the Effective Management of Sex Offenders in the Community
- 19. The Risk-Need Model of Offender Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis
Description
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.
Contents
Part I: Explanations of Sexual Deviance
- 1. Explaining Child Sexual Abuse: Integration and Elaboration
- 2. Good Lives and the Rehabilitation of Sexual Offenders
- 3. Back to the Future? Evolutionary Explanations of Rape
- 4. Behavioral Economic Approaches to the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Deviation
- 5. Penile Plethysmography: Will We Ever Get it Right?
- 6. Cultural Components of Practice: Reflexive Responses to Diversity and Difference
- 7. Developmental Antecedents of Sexual Offending
- 8. Cognitive Distortions, Schemas, and Implicit Theories
- 9. The Classification of Sexual Offenders
- 10. Empathy and Victim Empathy
Part II: Responses to Sexual Deviance
- 11. Research and Practice with Adolescent Sexual Offenders: Dilemmas and Directions
- 12. The Promise and the Peril of Sex Offender Risk Assessment
- 13. Treatment Models for Sex Offenders: A Move Towards a Formulation-Based Approach
- 14. Responsivity Factors in Sex Offender Treatment
- 15. Integrating Pharmacological Treatments
- 16. Harm Reduction and Sexual Offending: Is a Intraparadigmatic Shift Possible?
- 17. Sexual Offending is a Public Health Problem: Are We Doing Enough?
- 18. Enhancing Relapse Prevention Through the Effective Management of Sex Offenders in the Community
- 19. The Risk-Need Model of Offender Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis
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Sexual Deviance
Issues and Controversies
November 2002 | 400 pages | Sage US
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 28/02/2026 | 9780761927327 | $235.00 |
| 180 Day Ebook | 28/02/2026 | 9781452245638 | $90.00 |
| Lifetime | 28/02/2026 | 9781452245638 | $130.00 |
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 Contents:
- Part I: Explanations of Sexual Deviance
- 1. Explaining Child Sexual Abuse: Integration and Elaboration
- 2. Good Lives and the Rehabilitation of Sexual Offenders
- 3. Back to the Future? Evolutionary Explanations of Rape
- 4. Behavioral Economic Approaches to the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Deviation
- 5. Penile Plethysmography: Will We Ever Get it Right?
- 6. Cultural Components of Practice: Reflexive Responses to Diversity and Difference
- 7. Developmental Antecedents of Sexual Offending
- 8. Cognitive Distortions, Schemas, and Implicit Theories
- 9. The Classification of Sexual Offenders
- 10. Empathy and Victim Empathy
- Part II: Responses to Sexual Deviance
- 11. Research and Practice with Adolescent Sexual Offenders: Dilemmas and Directions
- 12. The Promise and the Peril of Sex Offender Risk Assessment
- 13. Treatment Models for Sex Offenders: A Move Towards a Formulation-Based Approach
- 14. Responsivity Factors in Sex Offender Treatment
- 15. Integrating Pharmacological Treatments
- 16. Harm Reduction and Sexual Offending: Is a Intraparadigmatic Shift Possible?
- 17. Sexual Offending is a Public Health Problem: Are We Doing Enough?
- 18. Enhancing Relapse Prevention Through the Effective Management of Sex Offenders in the Community
- 19. The Risk-Need Model of Offender Rehabilitation: A Critical Analysis