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For over a century, developmental disabilities have been associated with crime in prejudicial and pejorative contexts. Offenders with Developmental Disabilities provides a balanced, comprehensive review of the prevalence, nature and development of offending by those with intellectual disabilities. Not only does this volume include coverage of evidence-based assessment and treatment ideas, strategies and plans, but also places the field in a historical, legal and ethical context. William Lindsay, John Taylor and Peter Sturmey have brought together a wealth of contributors from differing backgrounds to share new material and knowledge of assessments, treatment, and service issues in a single volume. Divided into five parts, Part I opens with theoretical issues; Part II deals with legal and services contexts including ethical concerns; Part III considers risk assessment, general assessment and approaches to evaluation; Part IV addresses specific issues of sexual offending, anger and aggression, fire raising, dual diagnosis, female offenders and personality disorder; Part V concludes with service development, professional and research issues. Forensic practitioners and students from psychology and psychiatry, lawyers and advocates, nurses and social workers will all find this comprehensive and practical book an inspiration in taking this field forward.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Offenders with Developmental Disabilities
• Author: Lindsay, Sturmey, Taylor
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780471486350
• ISBN: 0471486353
• ID: 04891482
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Weight: 650 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 173 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2004

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