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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Forewords xvii</p> <p>Preface xxi</p> <p>Acknowledgements xxv</p> <p><b>Part I Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in the Study of Sex Offending 1</b></p> <p>1 The Criminal Career Paradigm and Its Relevance to Studying Sex Offenders 3<br /><i>Arjan Blokland & Patrick Lussier</i></p> <p>2 Criminal Career Features in Theories of Sexual Offending 23<br /><i>Jo Thakker & Tony Ward</i></p> <p>3 An Integrated Life?]Course Developmental Theory of Sexual Offending 43<br /><i>Stephen Smallbone & Jesse Cale</i></p> <p><b>Part II Criminal Career Patterns of Sex Offenders and Associated Issues 71</b></p> <p>4 Criminal Careers for Different Juvenile Sex Offender Subgroups 73<br /><i>Jan Hendriks, Chantal van den Berg, & Catrien Bijleveld</i></p> <p>5 The Childhood Risk Factors of Adolescent?]Onset and Adult?]Onset of Sex Offending: Evidence From a Prospective Longitudinal Study 93<br /><i>Patrick Lussier, Arjan Blokland, Jeff Mathesius, Dustin Pardini, & Rolf Loeber</i></p> <p>6 Assessing the Continuity of Sex Offending Over the Life Course: Evidence From Two Large Birth Cohort Studies 129<br /><i>Wesley G. Jennings, Alex R. Piquero, Franklin E. Zimring, & Jennifer M. Reingle</i></p> <p>7 Antisocial Trajectories in Youth and the Onset of Adult Criminal Careers in Sexual Offenders of Children and Women 143<br /><i>Jesse Cale</i></p> <p>8 Offending Patterns Over Time: An Examination of Specialization, Escalation, and De?]escalation in the Commission of Sexual Offenses 171<br /><i>Benoit Leclerc, Patrick Lussier, & Nadine Deslauriers?]Varin</i></p> <p>9 Criminal Career Features of Female Sexual Offenders 199<br /><i>Miriam Wijkman & Catrien Bijleveld</i></p> <p>10 Mayhem by Occupation: On the Relevance of Criminal Careers to Sexual Homicide Offenders 219<br />Matt DeLisi</p> <p>11 Changing Prevalence of Sex Offender Convictions: Disentangling Age, Period, and Cohort Effects Over Time 231<br /><i>Brian Francis, Claire Hargreaves, & Keith Soothill</i></p> <p>12 Life?]Course Transitions and Desistance in Sex Offenders: An Event History Analysis 257<br /><i>Arjan Blokland & Victor van der Geest</i></p> <p>13 Offending Trajectory and Residual Offending of Adult Sex Offenders: A Person?]Oriented Approach to Risk Prediction 289<br /><i>Patrick Lussier & Garth Davies</i></p> <p>14 The Concentration of Sex Offenses in British and Dutch Families 321<br /><i>Steve van de Weijer, Sytske Besemer, Catrien Bijleveld, & Arjan Blokland</i></p> <p><b>Part III The Criminal Career Approach and Associated Policy Issues 349</b></p> <p>15 Estimating the Size of the Sexual Aggressor Population 351<br /><i>Martin Bouchard & Patrick Lussier</i></p> <p>16 Potential for Redemption for Sex Offenders 373<br /><i>Kiminori Nakamura & Alfred Blumstein</i></p> <p>17 Policing Sex Offenders, Past and Present: The Role and Importance of a Criminal Career Approach in Helping Shape Future Policies 405<br /><i>Patrick Lussier & Arjan Blokland</i></p> <p>Index 429</p>

<p><b>Arjan A.J. Blokland</b> is a senior-researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and a professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His work has been published widely in criminology and psychology journals.</p> <p><b>Patrick Lussier</b> is an Associate Professor at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the co-director of the Centre for Research on Sexual Violence (CrSV) in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is co-principal investigator of the Vancouver Longitudinal Study of the psychosocial development of children. His work has been published in numerous academic journals.</p>

<span style="font-family:"><span style="font-size: small;">Legal interventions for sexual offenses are based on various assumptions about the criminal careers of sex offenders: that sex offenders are persistent offenders, that they offend at a high rate, and that they specialize in sexual offending.</span></span> <p> <span style="font-family:"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite this reliance, the empirical research on sex offenders’ criminal careers is sparse, and the few studies that do exist give reason to question and further investigate these assumptions.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"><span style="font-size: small;">Bringing together a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume offers an authoritative overview of the criminal careers of sex offenders from youth to adulthood, while questioning our received ideas and pushing the boundaries of our current empirical knowledge. Bringing together original research on sex offenders and career criminals, and performing an in-depth investigation into existing policies, the articles offer a substantial basis from which to cultivate forward-looking policy approaches for those involved in criminology and psychology research, criminal justice, and social work.</span></span></p>

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