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About the Editor. <p>List of Contributors.</p> <p>Preface.</p> <p>Foreword by David P. Farrington.</p> <p>Chapter 1: To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective (Clive R. Hollin).</p> <p><b>PART I: RISK ASSESSMENT.</b></p> <p>Chapter 2: Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality disordered individuals (Christopher D.Webster and Gerard Bailes).</p> <p>Chapter 3: Sex offender risk assessment (R. Karl Hanson).</p> <p><b>PART II: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.</b></p> <p>Chapter 4: Behavioral approaches to correctional management and rehabilitation (Michael A. Milan).</p> <p>Chapter 5: Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning and rehabilitation programme (David Robinson and Frank J. Porporino).</p> <p>Chapter 6: Family-based treatments (Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Scott W. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald).</p> <p>Chapter 7: Delinquency prevention programs in schools (David LeMarquand and Richard E. Tremblay).</p> <p>Chapter 8: Skills training (Clive R. Hollin and Emma J. Palmer).</p> <p>Chapter 9: Anger treatment with offenders (Raymond W. Novaco, Mark Ramm and Laura Black).</p> <p><b>PART III: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS.</b></p> <p>Chapter 10: Adult sexual offenders against women (William L. Marshall).</p> <p>Chapter 11: The assessment and treatment of sexual offenders against children (Tony Ward, Stephen M. Hudson and Thomas R. Keenan).</p> <p>Chapter 12: Firesetters (David J. Kolko).</p> <p>Chapter 13: Assessment and treatment:Violent offenders (Devon L. L. Polaschek and Nikki Reynolds).</p> <p>Chapter 14: Offenders with major mental disorders (Sheilagh Hodgins).</p> <p>Chapter 15: Offenders with personality disorders (Mary McMurran).</p> <p>Chapter 16: Property offences (James McGuire).</p> <p>Epilogue.</p> <p>Index.</p>

“…concise and accessible…I would recommend this book to the target readership…” (Vista, Vol.9, No.2, 2005)

<p>Clive R. Hollin is the editor of The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment, published by Wiley.

This "<i>Essential Handbook</i>" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful <i>Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment.</i> A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and property offenders. A range of treatment approaches are also included, incorporating behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, anger management, school programmes, and family-based approaches. <p>Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, <i>The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment</i> is a concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and researchers working with offenders across a range of settings.</p>

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