Gannon / Ward / Beech Aggressive Offenders' Cognition

Theory, Research and Practice
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-51593-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology

The book focuses specifically on aggressive offenders and is divided into two parts. Part I deals with sexual abusers whilst Part II is concerned with violent offenders. Each part discusses theory, latest research and treatment related information. Emphasis is placed on discussing cognition in context i.e. identifying the factors impacting upon and related to offenders' cognition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gannon, Theresa A.

Ward, Tony

Beech, Anthony R.

Fisher, Dawn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Series Editors' Preface xv
Preface xix
Acknowledgements xxi
Introduction 1
Theresa A. Gannon, Tony Ward, Anthony R. Beech and Dawn Fisher
PART I SEXUAL ABUSERS 9
1 The Cognitive Distortions and Implicit Theories of Child Sexual Abusers 11
Joanne Thakker, Tony Ward and Shruti Navathe
2 The Implicit Theories of Rapists and Sexual Murderers 31
Dawn Fisher and Anthony R. Beech
3 Cognitive Distortions as Belief, Value and Action Judgments 53
Tony Ward, Kirsten Keown and Theresa A. Gannon
4 Child Sexual Abuse-Related Cognition: Current Research 71
Theresa A. Gannon and Jane Wood
5 Rape-Related Cognition: Current Research 91
Calvin M. Langton
6 Changing Child Sexual Abusers' Cognition 117
Christopher Dean, Ruth E. Mann, Rebecca Milner and Shadd Maruna
7 Cognitive Treatment "Just for Rapists": Recent Developments 135
Lynne Eccleston and Karen Owen
PART II VIOLENT OFFENDERS 155
8 Theoretical Explanations of Aggression and Violence 157
Marc A. Sestir and Bruce Bartholow
9 Violence-Related Cognition: Current Research 179
Rachael M. Collie, James Vess and Sharlene Murdoch
10 Moral Cognition and Aggression 199
Emma J. Palmer
11 Treatments for Angry Aggression 215
Clive R. Hollin and Claire A. J. Bloxsom
12 Alcohol and Aggressive Cognition 231
Mary McMurran
13 The Cognition of Domestic Abusers: Explanations, Evidence and Treatment 247
Elizabeth Gilchrist
Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Theresa A. Gannon, DPhil, CPsychol, is Lecturer in ForensicPsychology at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, and alsoworks in a practical setting, one day a week, at the Trevor GibbensUnit Forensic Psychiatry Services, Kent, UK. Her research interestsinclude the examination of cognition in child sexual abusers,rapists and violent offenders using experimental techniques. She islead investigator on two funded projects investigating thecognition of offenders. One is investigating the existence ofoffence-supportive schema in women sexual abusers and the other isthe development of a pictorial cognitive test for adolescentoffenders. Theresa is also interested in public attitudes towardsoffending populations and models of offender rehabilitation.
Tony Ward, PhD, DipClinPsyc, is Director of the ClinicalPsychology Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, NewZealand. His research interests include the offence process inoffenders, cognitive distortions and models of rehabilitation. Hehas published over 200 research articles, chapters and books. Theseinclude Remaking Relapse Prevention, with D. R Laws and S.M. Hudson (Sage, 2000), Sourcebook of Treatment Programs forSexual Offenders, with W. L. Marshall, Y. A. Fernandez, and S.M. Hudson (Plenum, 1998), and Theories of Sexual Offending,with D. L. L. Polaschek and A. R. Beech (WIley, 2005).
Anthony R. Beech, PhD, CPsychol, is a professor ofcriminological psychology at the University of Birmingham in theUnited Kingdom, and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.Over the last 10 years he has been involved in treatment evaluationand the development of systems to look at treatment need andtreatment change in sex offenders. He has written widely on thesetopics and other related subjects.
Dawn Fisher, PhD, is Head of Psychological Services atLlanarth Court Psychiatric Hospital, Raglan, Wales and is a SeniorResearch Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Her currentresearch interests are risk assessment, sexual offenders'perspectives on treatment, treatment of adult and adolescent sexualoffenders and the use of equine assisted psychotherapy. She haspublished widely in the area of sexual offending.