MARC Record from Library of Congress

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020 $a9781606239353 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn613432790
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050 00 $aHV6556$b.L39 2011
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100 1 $aLaws, D. Richard.
245 10 $aDesistance from sex offending :$balternatives to throwing away the keys /$cD. Richard Laws, Tony Ward.
260 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bGuilford Press,$cc2011.
300 $axii, 306 p. :$bill., charts ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-298) and index.
505 0 $aGeneral 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.
650 0 $aSex offenders$xRehabilitation.
650 0 $aSex offenders$xServices for.
650 0 $aSex crimes$xPrevention.
700 1 $aWard, Tony,$d1954 March 17-