Sex Offenders (eBook)

A Criminal Career Approach

Arjan A. J. Blokland, Patrick Lussier (Autoren)

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2015
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-31466-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Arjan A.J. Blokland 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.

Patrick Lussier 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.

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An authoritative and in-depth treatment of the latest research into the criminal careers of sex offenders, providing background and investigating the policies used to combat one of society s most intractable public issues. Features chapters based on original research from the most prominent scholars in the field of sex offender and criminal career research Deals with the entire criminal careers of sex offenders from youth to adulthood Illustrates the significance of the criminal career approach for theory, treatment, research, and policy regarding sex offenders Covers a wider breadth of topics than existing texts and uses data from various studies and countries, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands Features an introductory chapter charting the origins of the criminal career perspective as well as the history of sex offender research, pinpointing the most important research questions and current debates in both fields

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors ix

Forewords xvii

Preface xxi

Acknowledgements xxv

Part I Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in the Study of Sex Offending 1

1 The Criminal Career Paradigm and Its Relevance to Studying Sex Offenders 3
Arjan Blokland & Patrick Lussier

2 Criminal Career Features in Theories of Sexual Offending 23
Jo Thakker & Tony Ward

3 An Integrated Life?]Course Developmental Theory of Sexual Offending 43
Stephen Smallbone & Jesse Cale

Part II Criminal Career Patterns of Sex Offenders and Associated Issues 71

4 Criminal Careers for Different Juvenile Sex Offender Subgroups 73
Jan Hendriks, Chantal van den Berg, & Catrien Bijleveld

5 The Childhood Risk Factors of Adolescent?]Onset and Adult?]Onset of Sex Offending: Evidence From a Prospective Longitudinal Study 93
Patrick Lussier, Arjan Blokland, Jeff Mathesius, Dustin Pardini, & Rolf Loeber

6 Assessing the Continuity of Sex Offending Over the Life Course: Evidence From Two Large Birth Cohort Studies 129
Wesley G. Jennings, Alex R. Piquero, Franklin E. Zimring, & Jennifer M. Reingle

7 Antisocial Trajectories in Youth and the Onset of Adult Criminal Careers in Sexual Offenders of Children and Women 143
Jesse Cale

8 Offending Patterns Over Time: An Examination of Specialization, Escalation, and De?]escalation in the Commission of Sexual Offenses 171
Benoit Leclerc, Patrick Lussier, & Nadine Deslauriers?]Varin

9 Criminal Career Features of Female Sexual Offenders 199
Miriam Wijkman & Catrien Bijleveld

10 Mayhem by Occupation: On the Relevance of Criminal Careers to Sexual Homicide Offenders 219
Matt DeLisi

11 Changing Prevalence of Sex Offender Convictions: Disentangling Age, Period, and Cohort Effects Over Time 231
Brian Francis, Claire Hargreaves, & Keith Soothill

12 Life?]Course Transitions and Desistance in Sex Offenders: An Event History Analysis 257
Arjan Blokland & Victor van der Geest

13 Offending Trajectory and Residual Offending of Adult Sex Offenders: A Person?]Oriented Approach to Risk Prediction 289
Patrick Lussier & Garth Davies

14 The Concentration of Sex Offenses in British and Dutch Families 321
Steve van de Weijer, Sytske Besemer, Catrien Bijleveld, & Arjan Blokland

Part III The Criminal Career Approach and Associated Policy Issues 349

15 Estimating the Size of the Sexual Aggressor Population 351
Martin Bouchard & Patrick Lussier

16 Potential for Redemption for Sex Offenders 373
Kiminori Nakamura & Alfred Blumstein

17 Policing Sex Offenders, Past and Present: The Role and Importance of a Criminal Career Approach in Helping Shape Future Policies 405
Patrick Lussier & Arjan Blokland

Index 429

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Notes on Contributors

Sytske Besemer, University of California, Berkeley, USA Sytske Besemer works at the Institute of Human Development and School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. She has a background in developmental psychology as well as criminology and was educated at Leiden University, VU University Amsterdam and the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar. She is interested in intergenerational transmission of behavior, life-course and developmental criminology, mental health and crime, the impact of criminal policies, and prevention of criminal behavior.

Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR and VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Catrien Bijleveld was trained as a psychologist and criminal lawyer. She is Professor of Research Methods in Criminology as well as Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Her research interests are (sexual) violence, the intergenerational transmission of delinquency, and international crimes.

Arjan Blokland, NSCR and Leiden University, Amsterdam/Leiden, the Netherlands Arjan Blokland is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). His research interests include developmental and life-course criminology, interpersonal violence, and the effects of formal interventions on criminal career development.

Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Alfred Blumstein is J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research and former Dean of the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. He was also director of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), a multi-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation. His research over the past 20 years has covered many aspects of criminal justice phenomena and policy, including crime measurement, criminal careers, sentencing, deterrence and incapacitation, prison populations, flow through the system, demographic trends, juvenile violence, and drug-enforcement policy.

Martin Bouchard, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Martin Bouchard is an Associate Professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. Prior to this appointment, he received his PhD in Criminology from University of Montreal, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Maryland. Dr Bouchard’s work specializes in the organization of illegal drug markets, and in research on criminal careers.

Jesse Cale, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Jesse Cale is currently a lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. He completed his PhD in Criminology at Simon Fraser University in 2010. He has authored and co-authored numerous research studies for the Canadian government, journal articles, and book chapters in the field of criminology on topics including sexual offenders and offenses, homicide, serious and violent youth, Aboriginal victimization in Canada, and public safety issues.

Garth Davies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada Garth Davies is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include terrorism, communities and crime, housing and crime, policing, criminological theory, statistical analyses, and research methods.

Matt DeLisi, Iowa State University, Ames, USA Matt DeLisi is Coordinator of Criminal Justice Studies, Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State University. His primary research interests include criminal careers/career criminals, self-control theory, corrections, psychopathy, and the molecular/behavioral genetics of antisocial behavior.

Nadine Deslauriers-Varin, Laval University, Quebec, Canada Nadine Deslauriers-Varin is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Laval University. She completed her PhD at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. She has published numerous scientific articles on police investigation and interrogation, criminal profiling and crime linkage, and environmental criminology, as well as on sex offending.

Brian Francis, Lancaster University, UK Brian Francis is a Professor of Social Statistics at the Centre for Applied Statistics, Department of Maths and Statistics, Fylde College, Lancaster University. He has over 30 years of experience of statistical consultancy and applied statistical research with over 200 research papers and seven co-authored books. His statistical interests are in statistical modeling, the analysis of ranked data, data visualization, case-control studies, and statistical computing, with applications in the social sciences, medicine, and local government finance. He has worked extensively in criminology, developing analytic approaches for research problems, particularly in the areas of criminal careers and crime seriousness and escalation.

Claire Hargreaves, Lancaster University, UK Claire Hargreaves is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester and a PhD student at the Centre for Applied Statistics, Department of Maths and Statistics, Fylde College, Lancaster University. Her principal research interests lie in the field of crime policy, with focus on offenders’ criminal careers. Her doctoral research quantitatively investigates the risk of sexual offenders’ recidivism over time, when a sexual offender can be considered low risk, and whether criminal history and demographic factors affect sexual offenders’ risk of recidivism.

Jan Hendriks, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Jan Hendriks is a forensic and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology at the VU University, Amsterdam, and professor of Forensic Orthopedagogics at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are juvenile and adult sex offenders, female offenders, and interventions for delinquent youth.

Wesley G. Jennings, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Wesley G. Jennings, PhD, is Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Criminology, has a Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Florida Mental Health Institute in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. In addition, he also has a Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Child Health Policy in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida. He received his doctorate degree in criminology from the University of Florida. He has over 175 publications, his h-index is 26 (i-index of 61), and he has over 2,200 citations to his published work. He was recently recognized as the #1 criminologist in the world (at his previous rank of Assistant Professor: Copes et al., JCJE, 2013) and the #3 criminologist in the world across all ranks in terms of his peer-reviewed scholarly publication productivity in the top criminology and criminal justice journals (Cohn & Farrington, JCJE, 2014). He is also the author (with David Farrington & Alex Piquero) of a recently published, academic press book with Springer, Offending from childhood to late middle age: Recent results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, and is the author (with Jennifer Reingle) of a recently published textbook with Wolters Kluwer, Criminological and Criminal Justice Research Methods. His major research interests include longitudinal data analysis, police body-worn cameras, sex offending, gender, race/ethnicity, the victim-offender overlap, and early childhood prevention. In addition, he is a member of the American Society of Criminology, a Lifetime Member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and a member of both the Midwestern and the Southern Criminal Justice Associations.

Benoit Leclerc, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Benoit Leclerc is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests focus on the application and development of crime script analysis for purposes of situational prevention, crime event analysis as well as sexual offending. He is currently leading a project on the effectiveness of situational prevention to prevent sexual offenses. Key publications include articles in Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency and Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment as well as books entitled Cognition and Crime: Offender Decision-Making and Script Analyses (co-edited with Wortley) and Pathways to Sexual Aggression (co-edited with Proulx, Beauregard and Lussier).

Rolf Loeber, University of Pittsburgh, Pittburgh, USA Rolf Loeber is Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry and a Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is co-director of the Life History Program and principle investigator of the Pittsburgh Youth Study and the Pittsburgh Girls Study. He has published widely in the fields of juvenile antisocial behavior and delinquency, substance use, and mental health problems.

Patrick Lussier, Laval University, Quebec, Canada Patrick Lussier is a full Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Social Sciences...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Forensic Psychology • Forensische Psychologie • Psychologie • Psychology • sexual offenders, criminal career, psychosocial development, psychosocial, sexual offending, criminology, sex crimes
• ISBN-10: 1-118-31466-2 / 1118314662
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-31466-1 / 9781118314661