Book description
This handbook combines the latest theory on a high-profile, complex
subject in criminology, exploring the legal and ethical dimensions of
society's response to sex offenders in jurisdictions from the USA to Japan.
- The first publication to offer a detailed and wide-ranging
analysis of legal and ethical issues relating to sex offender
treatment and management
- Covers a range of related issues, from media coverage to equality duties
- Presents research from numerous national jurisdictions including
the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Germany,
Netherlands, Japan, and Israel
- Includes perspectives from respected leading academics and
practitioners, including William Marshall, Tony Ward, Doug Boer,
Daniel Wilcox, and Marnie Rice
Karen Harrison is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the
University of Hull, UK. She has published several articles on the use
of pharmacotherapy with high-risk sex offenders and is the author of
Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and
Violent Offenders (2011) and is the editor of Managing High
Risk Sex Offenders in The Community (2010). Dr Harrison is an
editorial board member of the Journal of Sexual Aggression and
the Prison Service Journal as well as associate editor of
Sexual Offender Treatment.
Bernadette Rainey is a Lecturer at Cardiff Law School, UK, and
the Director of the Cardiff Law School Centre for Human Rights and
Public Law. She has published work on several areas of human rights
law, including equality duties and sexual offenders.
