Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sex Offender Treatment and Management (Wiley-Blackwell Handbook)

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Sex Offender Treatment and Management (Wiley-Blackwell Handbook)

Language: English

Pages: 522

ISBN: 2:00329883

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This handbook combines the latest theory on a high-profile, complex subject in criminology, exploring the legal and ethical dimensions of society’s response to sex offenders in jurisdictions from the USA to Japan.

* The first publication to offer a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of legal and ethical issues relating to sex offender treatment and management
* Covers a range of related issues, from media coverage to equality duties
* Presents research from numerous national jurisdictions including the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, and Israel
* Includes perspectives from respected leading academics and practitioners, including William Marshall, Tony Ward, Doug Boer, Daniel Wilcox, and Marnie Rice

The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism

Knowing Right from Wrong

Ethics in Light Of Childhood

Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karp Index vii 372 388 406 424 445 462 479 About the Contributors Sherry Ashfield joined the Lucy Faithfull Foundation in 2001 and works as a principal practitioner informing its work with female abusers. Sherry provides assessment, intervention, consultancy and training services to many organizations including probation trusts, the prison service, local authorities and the voluntary and community sector. J.C. Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Criminology Program at the.

People do not buy sexual services in any case. In the field of sex offending, do most people (including sex offenders) agree upon the legal situation? Sex with children is wrong, as is sex without a partner’s consent. Due to stricter legal regulations and a growing public awareness, are people now generally aware of the problem and also willing to do something about it? This might be the reason why more offenders are caught today than 20 years ago. 10 Knut Hermstad So far neither the.

Commission) v. Secretary of State for Justice ([2010] EWHC 147), the court found that the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the UK Border Agency failed to fulfill their statutory duty under disability and race legislation to have due regard to the equality of these groups. The bodies had decided to remove foreign prisoners to different prisons without any evidence that the policy had been assessed for differential impact. The lack of evidence of an assessment of the impact of the.

And Faris, N. (2004) The Section 75 Equality Duty – An Operational Review Vol. 1. Belfast: Northern Ireland Office. Metzner, J.L., Humphreys, S. and Ryan, G. (2009) “Juveniles who sexually offend: psychosocial intervention and treatment,” in F.M. Saleh, A.J. Grudzinskas, J.M. Bradford and D.J. Brodsky (eds), Sex Offenders: Identification, Risk Assessment, Treatment and Legal Issues. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 241–253. Miner, M., Borduin, C., Prescott, D., et al. (2006) “Standards of.

Memories are true until they are given reason to doubt them. But particularly in historic abuse cases, this metaphorical presumption of innocence clashes with the legal presumption of innocence on the part of the person whose misdeeds are supposedly being remembered. A defendant ought to be able to adduce any evidence that is capable of rationally persuading a jury to entertain a reasonable doubt of his guilt. It is vital, however, that such evidence has a rational basis and, particularly in such.

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