This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful
Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. 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 programs, and family-based approaches.
Whilst retaining its international, high quality appeal, The Essential Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment
is a concise, portable edition for all clinicians, academics and researchers working with offenders across a range
of settings.
Table of Contents
About the Editor.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Foreword by David P. Farrington.
Chapter 1: To treat or not to treat? An historical perspective (Clive R. Hollin).
PART I: RISK ASSESSMENT.
Chapter 2: Assessing violence risk in mentally and personality disordered individuals (Christopher D.Webster
and Gerard Bailes).
Chapter 3: Sex offender risk assessment (R. Karl Hanson).
PART II: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT.
Chapter 4: Behavioral approaches to correctional management and rehabilitation (Michael A. Milan).
Chapter 5: Programming in cognitive skills: The reasoning and rehabilitation programme (David Robinson and Frank
J. Porporino).
Chapter 6: Family-based treatments (Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Scott W. Henggeler and Sonja K. Schoenwald).
Chapter 7: Delinquency prevention programs in schools (David LeMarquand and Richard E. Tremblay).
Chapter 8: Skills training (Clive R. Hollin and Emma J. Palmer).
Chapter 9: Anger treatment with offenders (Raymond W. Novaco, Mark Ramm and Laura Black).
PART III: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS.
Chapter 10: Adult sexual offenders against women (William L. Marshall).
Chapter 11: The assessment and treatment of sexual offenders against children (Tony Ward, Stephen M. Hudson and
Thomas R. Keenan).
Chapter 12: Firesetters (David J. Kolko).
Chapter 13: Assessment and treatment:Violent offenders (Devon L. L. Polaschek and Nikki Reynolds).
Chapter 14: Offenders with major mental disorders (Sheilagh Hodgins).
Chapter 15: Offenders with personality disorders (Mary McMurran).
Chapter 16: Property offences (James McGuire).
