A History of the Assessment of Sex Offenders

There are many varieties of procedures to assess criminal and sex offenders that have emerged throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

D. Richard Laws received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1969. He was director of the Sexual Behavior Laboratory at Atascadero State Hospital in California from 1970-1985; project director at the Florida Mental Health Institute, Tampa, from 1985-1989; manager of forensic psychology at Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta from 1989-1994; and as a forensic psychologist with Adult Forensic Psychiatric Community Services in Victoria, British Columbia from 1994-1999. Dr Laws has published widely in the area of sexual abuse and is best known as a developer of assessment procedures and behavior therapies.

Zusammenfassung

There are many varieties of procedures to assess criminal and sex offenders that have emerged throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: D. Richard Laws
• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781787693609
• ISBN: 978-1-78769-360-9
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 482 g
• Themen: Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde; Straftäter