Sexual Offending presents the latest theory and research relating to the social cognition, emotion, and motivational goals of individuals who have committed sexual offences.
- Explores how individuals who have committed sexual offences perceive the world and themselves, and how understanding this can inform their rehabilitation
- Provides a broad-based view of cognition, and explores the complex relationship between cognition, emotion and associated constructs such as motivational goals
- Integrates recent work on female sexual offenders alongside the literature on their male counterparts, providing researchers and practitioners with a single resource
- A valuable handbook for researchers, practitioners and students concerned with understanding and rehabilitating individuals who have committed sexual offences
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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1 Emotion, Cognition and Motivation: An Enactive Perspective |
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2 The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivational Goals in Sexual Offending: Multi-Factor Models |
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3 Cognitive Explanations of Sexual Offending |
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4 Bridging the Cognitive--Emotion Divide: Empathy and Sexual Offending |
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5 Emotions and Sexual Offending |
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6 Motivators, Self-Regulation and Sexual Offending |
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7 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Treatment for Individuals who have Sexually Offended |
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8 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Future Directions in Sexual Offending |
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Theresa A. Gannon is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Director of the Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychology (CORE-FP) at the University of Kent, UK. Dr. Gannon also works as a Practitioner Consultant Forensic Psychologist specializing in sexual offending and fire-setting for the Forensic and Specialist Service Line, Kent and Medway Partnership Trust. She has published more than 100 book chapters, articles, books, and other scholarly works related to male- and female-perpetrated sexual offending.
