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Desistance from sex offending alternatives to throwing away the keys / D. Richard Laws, Tony Ward.
| Author/creator | Laws, D. Richard |
| Other author | Ward, Tony, 1954 March 17- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York ; London : Guilford Press, |
| Description | xii, 306 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | General issues -- The criminological perspective -- Defining and measuring desistance -- The age-crime curve: a brief overview -- Theoretical perspectives on desistance -- Factors influencing desistance -- Two major theories of desistance -- The forensic psychological perspective -- Do sex offenders desist? -- Sex offender treatment and desistance -- Reentry and reintegration -- Barriers to reentry and reintegration -- Overcoming barriers to reentry and reintegration -- Recruitment -- The unknown sex offenders: bringing them in from the cold -- Blending theory and practice: a criminological perspective -- Desistance-focused intervention -- The good lives model of offender rehabilitation: basic assumptions, etiological commitments, and practice implications -- The good lives model and desistance theory and research: points of convergence -- The good lives-desistance model: assessment and treatment -- Where to from here? -- Dignity, punishment, and human rights: the ethics of desistance -- Moral strangers or one of us? Concluding thoughts. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-298) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010027960 |
| ISBN | 9781606239353 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 160623935X (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |