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By Tony Ward

This accomplished textual content offers an updated evaluate and critique of present theorising approximately sexual offending. It offers the foremost principles underpinning every one concept in a transparent and obtainable demeanour. Theories are carefully confirmed and evaluated, and their benefits are tested from either a learn and a scientific aspect of view.Importantly, the emphasis is on supplying transparent hyperlinks among concept and perform, and the medical implications of the several theories and views are explicitly mentioned. furthermore, a few new rules in regards to the aetiology of sexual offending are presented.Theories of Sexual Offending is without doubt one of the few books to attract all the disparate strands of theorising jointly, and is the one one to obviously hyperlink thought to perform. it is going to be a invaluable source for any expert operating with sexual offenders, similar to medical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officials and social employees. it's going to even be of curiosity to scholars of forensic and scientific psychology.

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The explicit message that there are different causes for child sexual abuse also helps individuals to be more tolerant when they encounter group members who differ from them in some way. Another advantage is that by allowing individuals to understand why they did what they did, it takes the mystery (and anxiety to some extent) out of the treatment process. It also encourages offenders to regard themselves as individuals who have committed a sexual offence and not as ‘sex offenders’, who are unchangeable.

He traces their sexual preferences for male or female victims back to the nature of early conditioning experiences, which entrench a proclivity for particular types of victims. Furthermore, he draws upon the dimensions of strength and exclusivity of sexual interest in children to account for individual differences in motivation and degree of preoccupation. These additional constructs enable him to refine his theory considerably. e. such interests are not exclusive), while others may be exclusively interested in sexual relationships with children but possess a weak sex drive.

We will now make a few comments about the precondition model. Our aim is to highlight only the most striking strengths and weaknesses rather than present a systematic and detailed evaluation (for this see Ward & Hudson, 2001). We will start with some general points and then move onto some specific issues. The precondition model displays a number of theoretical virtues. First, it provides a useful framework for the comprehensive assessment of child molesters and clearly describes problems evident in these individuals (empirical scope).

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