This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex offenders and sex crimes. Its accessible style and use of practice based learning exercises will help readers to reflect on theory, practice and developing emotional resilience.
                                
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                                  This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. Its accessible style and use of practice based learning exercises will help readers to reflect on theory, practice and developing emotional resilience.
                                
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                              Introduction
Constructing sex crimes with sex offenders
Understanding sex crimes with sex offenders
Penal responses to the sex offender
Working together: policy into practice
Social work assessment of sex offenders
Social work interventions
Developing reflexive and reflective practice with sex offenders
Conclusion
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                              Product details
ISBN
                    
            9781447358770
      
                  Published
                     2016-04-27 
                  Publisher
                    Bristol University Press; Policy Press
                  Height
                     240 mm
                  Width
                     172 mm
                  Age
                     G, 01
                  Language
                    
  Product language
              Engelsk
          Format
                    
  Product format
              Heftet
          Biographical note
Malcolm Cowburn is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University.
Steve Myers is Director of Multi-Professional Practice Studies at the University of Salford.
