Social Work with Sex Offenders

Making a Difference

Malcolm Cowburn, Steve Myers (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2016
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-5877-0 (ISBN)

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This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. Its accessible style and use of practice based learning exercises will help readers to reflect on theory, practice and developing emotional resilience.

This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex offenders and sex crimes. Its accessible style and use of practice based learning exercises will help readers to reflect on theory, practice and developing emotional resilience.

Malcolm Cowburn is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University. Steve Myers is Director of Multi-Professional Practice Studies at the University of Salford.

Introduction

Constructing sex crimes with sex offenders

Understanding sex crimes with sex offenders

Penal responses to the sex offender

Working together: policy into practice

Social work assessment of sex offenders

Social work interventions

Developing reflexive and reflective practice with sex offenders

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2020
Reihe/Serie	Social Work in Practice
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-5877-5 / 1447358775
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-5877-0 / 9781447358770
Zustand	Neuware