Birch Philip - Violent and sexual offenders: assessment, treatment and management

Building on the success of the first edition and the growth of research in the field over the past decade, this book offers an authoritative overview of the assessment, treatment, and management of violent and sexual offenders. This new and expanded edition reflects the considerable developments in research and empirical data and captures the increasing breadth of risk assessment approaches, the wider range of empirically based therapies, and the more creative means of considering management.

The second edition captures key developments in this area, with new chapters drawing on a range of pressing contemporary issues, such as female offenders, Internet offenders, terrorists, young people involved in harmful sexual behaviour, and protective factors for aggression. There is also extended coverage of the management of offenders within secure settings and in the community, referring to a wider variety of approaches and the incorporation of technology.

This book will be of considerable interest to academics, practitioners, and students engaged with understanding and/or treating violence and aggression, sex crime, forensic psychology, and the assessment, treatment, and management of offenders.

Jane L. Ireland, Chartered Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, and Chartered Scientist, holds a professorial chair at the University of Central Lancashire and is Violence Treatment Lead within High Secure Services, Ashworth Hospital, Mersey Care NHS Trust. She is elected academy fellow of the Council of the Academy of Social Sciences and fellow of the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA). She regularly publishes in the area of aggression and leads the Ashworth Research Centre (ARC) within Mersey Care NHS Trust.

Carol A. Ireland, Consultant Chartered Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, and Chartered Scientist, is Lead Trainer for the Life Minus Violence Harmful Sexual Behaviour Therapy, and Senior Research Lead at the Ashworth Research Centre. She also works at the University of Central Lancashire, where she is Director for the MSc in Forensic Psychology. She also works at the Coastal Child and Adult Therapeutic Services (CCATS).

Philip Birch is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Prior to entering academia Philip worked as a criminologist in the field, holding posts in the UK Prison Service as well as in the crime and disorder field, which involved managing a specialist crime unit. Philip is an honorary research fellow within the Forensic Psychology Research Centre, UCLan, UK, and a senior research associate at Ashworth Research Centre, Ashworth Hospital, UK.

Second Edition

Edited by Jane L. Ireland,
Carol A. Ireland, and
Philip Birch

Second edition published 2019

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First edition published by Willan 2009; Routledge 2012

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Names: Ireland, Jane L., editor. | Ireland, Carol A., editor. | Birch, Philip, editor.

Title: Violent and sexual offenders : assessment, treatment and management / edited by Jane L. Ireland, Carol A. Ireland and Philip Birch.

Description: Second Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | Revised edition of Violent and sexual offenders, 2009. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018013565 | ISBN 9781138233096 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138233102 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315310411 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Violent offenders. | Sex offenders.

Classification: LCC HV6625 .V56 2019 | DDC 364.15dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018013565

ISBN: 978-1-138-23309-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-23310-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-31041-1 (ebk)

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To Roy, the best bonus dad we could have. Thanks for always being there and making us
laugh. Also to Philip, who has perfected
across 20 years how to work and interact perfectly with twins.
Lots of love, Carol and Jane

To Michael Kennedy, who was made a colleague by chance and who has become an
inspiration through support. Also to Grizzly Bear since inspiration sometimes needs
to come from a four-legged friend who can wag their tail as I explain theories while he
maintains a look of rapt interest in everything being said. Philip