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Sex Offenders
Arjan A. J. Blokland
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Description for Sex Offenders
Hardcover. Bringing together a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume offers an authoritative overview of the criminal careers of sex offenders from youth to adulthood, while questioning our received ideas and pushing the boundaries of our current empirical knowledge. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JKVQ; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 176 x 27. Weight in Grams: 860.
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 ... Read more
- 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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780470975459
SKU
V9780470975459
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Ref
99-1
About Arjan A. J. Blokland
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, ... Read more
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