Sex Offenders – A Criminal Career Approach : A Criminal Career Approach

Bringing together a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume offers an authoritative overview of the criminal careers of sex offenders from youth to adulthood, while questioning our received ideas and pushing the boundaries of our current empirical knowledge.

An authoritative and in-depth treatment of the latest research into the criminal careers of sex offenders, providing background and investigating the policies used to combat one of society’s most intractable public issues. Features chapters based on original research from the most prominent scholars in the field of sex offender and criminal career researchDeals with the entire criminal careers of sex offenders from youth to adulthoodIllustrates the significance of the criminal career approach for theory, treatment, research, and policy regarding sex offendersCovers a wider breadth of topics than existing texts and uses data from various studies and countries, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the NetherlandsFeatures an introductory chapter charting the origins of the criminal career perspective as well as the history of sex offender research, pinpointing the most important research questions and current debates in both fields