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Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others
$135.00
Presenting up-to-date models of policy and practice, Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Others offers key research findings about the incidence, prevalence and characteristics of young sexual abusers. The issues discussed include policy and service development; sexually aggressive children and adolescents; evaluating treatment of outcomes in relations to young abusers; and issues around empowering pratice in this area of work. This accessible book is invaluable reading for students of health and social care, social workers and policy makers involved in child protection, criminal and youth justice and counselling.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Diseases and People)
$26.60
An extremely informative volume, it provides basic information on a variety of diseases and conditions. A good reference manual. A must have for sexual education classes or coffee tables everywhere.

Young People Who Sexually Abuse: Building the Evidence Base for Your Practice
$99.95
Contributors from all over the British Isles draw on a combination of practice, experience, research, evaluation, and academic review to present this volume. It aims to: stimulate thought and discussion; identify areas where further research is needed; and guide practice, policy, procedure, and development. It should prove useful to anyone who seeks to understand or to work with young people who sexually abuse.

Civil Commitment of Sexually Dangerous Persons
$69.00
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.