Author: John L. KirwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Civil Commitment of Sexual Psychopathic Personalities and Sexually Dangerous Persons in Minnesota
Author: John L. KirwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Task Force on Sexual Predators
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788120107
Category : Sex offenders
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Civil Commitment Study Group
Author: Minnesota. Department of Corrections. Civil Commitment Study GroupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex offenders
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Sexually Psychopathic Personality Disorder and Sexually Dangerous Persons
Author: Psychopathic Personality Commitment Law
Author: Minnesota. Legislature. Office of the Legislative Auditor. Program Evaluation DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antisocial personality disorders
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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Author: Minnesota's Civil Commitment System for Sexually Dangerous Persons
Author: Jeff DiebelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil commitment of sex offenders
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Evaluating Sex Offenders
Author: Dennis M. DorenPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761921141
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A professional volume to help practitioners, clinicians, counselors, and parole officers, assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted of a sex crime. This is the most comprehensive volume available on every aspect of assessing risk. It compares all current risk assessment techniques of sex offenders in terms of ease of use, reliability, and predictive power. It is a complete guide to assessing sex offenders for likelihood of re-offense, and it provides a wealth of information on other aspects of the assessment process, including information gathering, interviewing offenders, and writing reports. Chapter topics include: defining risk; data gathering; diagnostic issues; recidivism base rates; risk factor lists; actuarial scales; instrumentation (violent and sexual); the evaluation report; presenting in court; ethical issues.
Civil Commitment of Sexually Dangerous Persons
Author: Nathan JamesPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781604565058
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The 109th Congress passed legislation that allows the federal government to civilly commit "sexually dangerous persons". Civil commitment, as it relates to sex offenders, is when a state retains custody of an individual, found by a judge or jury to be a "sexually dangerous person" by involuntarily committing the person to a secure mental health facility after the offender's prison sentence is done. In 1990, the state of Washington passed the first civil commitment law for sexually dangerous persons. Currently, 18 other states and the federal government have similar laws. Moreover, the Supreme Court, in Kansas v. Hendricks and Kansas v. Crane, ruled that current civil commitment laws are constitutional. The civil commitment of sex offenders centres on the belief that sex offenders are more likely than other offenders to re-offend. However, data on sex offender recidivism is varied. Data show that the recidivism risk for sex offenders may be lower than it is typically thought to be; in fact, some studies show that sex offenders recidivate at a lower rate than many other criminals. Other studies show that, given time, almost all sex offenders will commit a new sex crime. Most discussions about recidivism examine ways to decrease it; for example, by providing sex offenders with treatment. Research on the efficacy of sex offender treatment is promising, but it cannot prove that treatment reduces recidivism.
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