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Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders. The book advocates for the further use of less traditional and creative therapies, in particular, music therapy.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: EXPLORING HIGH-RISK OFFENDER TREATMENT AND CREATIVE CORRECTIONS
1. The Higher the Risk, the Greater the Needs: High-risk Offender Treatment
2. Contemporary Offender Treatment from the Practitioner’s Perspective
3. Moving Towards a Creative Corrections Approach
PART II: MUSIC THERAPY AS A COMPONENT OF OFFENDER TREATMENT
4. Exploring the Research: Music Therapy for Offending Behaviour
5. The Practitioner’s Perspective and Experience of Music Therapy for High-risk Offenders
6. The Role of Music Therapy in High-risk Offender Treatment
Appendices
References
Index
About the author
Louise A. Sicard is an academic and lecturer of criminology and policing, working with Charles Sturt University, Australia. Louise’s work focuses on offender treatment, penology, creative therapeutic approaches as well as young people and crime.
Summary
Exploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders. The book advocates for the further use of less traditional and creative therapies, in particular, music therapy.
