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Informationen zum Autor Karen Harrison is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Hull, UK. She has published several articles on the use of pharmacotherapy with high-risk sex offenders, is the author of Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders (2011) and is the editor of Managing High-Risk Sex Offenders in The Community (2010). Dr Harrison is an editorial board member of the Journal of Sexual Aggression and the Prison Service Journal as well as associate editor of Sexual Offender Treatment. Bernadette Rainey is a Lecturer at Cardiff Law School, UK, and the Director of the Cardiff Law School Centre for Human Rights and Public Law. She has published work on several areas of human rights law, including equality duties and sexual offenders. Klappentext 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 "This comprehensive collection of chapters from a stellar cast of contributors clearly fills a gap in the literature and brings together some genuinely international thinking . " ( Prison Service Journal , 1 July 2013) Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Contributors ix Preface xvi Abbreviations xxiv Part One Treating and Managing Sexual Offender Risk in Context: Legal and Ethical Concerns 1 1 Sexual Offenses, Law and Morals: Can Behavior and Attitudes Be Changed by Legal and Moral Efforts? 3 Knut Hermstad 2 Human Rights and Sexual Offenders 18 Bernadette Rainey 3 Sex Offenders, Consent to Treatment and the Politics of Risk 38 Phil Fennell 4 Special Offender Groups and Equality: A Duty to Treat Differently? 63 Bernadette Rainey 5 Expert Evidence, Ethics and the Law 82 Tony Ward 6 Ethical Issues in Sex Offender Research 97 Tony Ward and Gwenda Willis 7 Reintegrative and Disintegrative Shaming: Legal and Ethical Issues 113 Anne-Marie McAlinden 8 "Castrate 'Em!": Treatments, Cures and Ethical Considerations in UK Press Coverage of "Chemical Castration" 129 Peter Brown 9 Sentencing Sex Offenders: An International Comparison of Sentencing Policy and Legislation 150 Karen Harrison 10 Sentencing and Crime Policy for Sex Offenders in Japan: The Possible Impact of the Lay Judge System 168 Mari Hirayama 11 Unique Disadvantages, Unique Needs: Native American Sex Offenders 180 Nora V. Demleitner 12 Mandated Reporting Laws: Experiences from Israel 201 Sheri Oz Part Two Legal and Ethical Issues in Risk Treatment 217 13 Treatment for Adult Sex Offenders: May We Reject the Null Hypothesis? 219 Marnie E. Rice and Grant T. Harris 14 Ethical Issues in Treating Sexual Offenders: Applying Empirically Based Process Features of Treatment Delivery 236 W.L. Marshall and L.E. Marshall 15 A Forensic...
