Responding to Sexual Offending

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Realities of Legislating Against and Protecting the Public from Risky Groups

   • Andrew Williams, Mike Nash

   Pages 1-19

3. Community-Based Management of Sexual Offender Risk: Options and Opportunities

   • Robin J. Wilson, David S. Prescott

   Pages 20-47

4. Female Sex Offenders: Gender and Risk Perception

   • Ian A. Elliott, Alexandra Bailey

   Pages 48-71

5. New Technologies, ‘Risk’ and Sexual Offending

   • Ruth McAlister

   Pages 72-92

6. Sex Offending and Sex Tourism: Problems, Policy and Challenges

   • Duncan McPhee

   Pages 93-110

7. Sexual Offending Treatment Programmes: The Importance of Evidence-Informed Practice

   • Adam J. Carter

   Pages 111-127

8. Understanding and Responding to Persons with Special Needs Who Have Sexually Offended

   • Robin J. Wilson, David S. Prescott

   Pages 128-152

9. Risky Business? Supporting Desistance from Sexual Offending

   • Beth Weaver, Monica Barry

   Pages 153-170

10. Tales from the Trenches: Zooming in on the Process of Desistance from Sexual Offending

    • Danielle Arlanda Harris

    Pages 170-188

11. Creativity and Rehabilitation: What Else Might Work in Changing Sex Offenders’ Behaviour?

    • Charlotte Bilby

    Pages 189-205

12. Managing Sex Offenders in the UK: Challenges for Policy and Practice

    • Hazel Kemshall, Kieran McCartan

    Pages 206-226

13. Back Matter

    Pages 227-231

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This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental understandings and responses to sexual violence. Exploring issues such as how to manage sex offenders, the volume provides recommendations for how to reduce offending and improve community engagement.

• Desistance
• sex offender reintegration
• policy
• sex offender treatment
• prison
• probation
• risk
• public
• rehabilitation
• behavior
• creativity
• gender
• perception
• Risk Management
• violence
• sexual behaviour

• University of the West of England, UK

  Kieran McCartan

Alexandra Bailey, Lucy Faithfull Foundation, UK. Monica Barry, University of Strathclyde, UK. Charlotte Bilby, Northumbria University, UK. Adam Carter, National Offender Management Services, UK. Ian Elliott, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. Danielle Harris, San Jose State University, USA. Hazel Kemshall, DeMontfort University, UK. Ruth McAlister, University of Ulster, UK. Duncan McPhee, University of the West of England, UK. Mike Nash, University of Portsmouth, UK. David Prescott, Becket Family of Services, USA. Beth Weaver, University of Strathclyde, UK. Andrew Williams, Portsmouth University, UK. Robin Wilson, Humber College, USA.

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