Tony Ward & Devon Polaschek 
Theories of Sexual Offending 

This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date review and critique
of current theorising about sexual offending. It presents the key
ideas underpinning each theory in a clear and accessible manner.
Theories are rigorously tested and evaluated, and their merits are
examined from both a research and a clinical point of view.

Importantly, the emphasis is on providing clear links between
theory and practice, and the clinical implications of the different
theories and perspectives are explicitly discussed. In addition, a
number of new ideas about the aetiology of sexual offending are
presented.

Theories of Sexual Offending is one of the few
books to draw all of the disparate strands of theorising together,
and is the only one to clearly link theory to practice. It will be
a valuable resource for any professional working with sexual
offenders, such as clinical and forensic psychologists,
psychiatrists, probation officers and social workers. It will also
be of interest to students of forensic and clinical psychology.

Зміст

About the Authors.

Series Editors’ Preface.

Acknowledgements.

PART I: INTRODUCTION.

1. Theory construction, development, and evaluation.

PART II: LEVEL I THEORIES (MULTIFACTORIAL THEORIES).

2. Finkelhor’s Precondition Theory.

3. Marshall and Barbaree’s Integrated Theory.

4. Hall and Hirschman’s Quadripartite Theory.

5. Ward and Siegert’s Pathways Model.

6. Malamuth’s Confluence Model of Sexual
Aggression.

7. Evolutionary Theory and Sexual Offending.

PART III: LEVEL II THEORIES (SINGLE FACTOR THEORIES).

8. Theories of Cognitive Distortions.

9. Theories of Deficient Victim Empathy.

10. Theories of Deviant Sexual Preferences.

11. Feminist Theories.

12. Theories of Intimacy Deficits.

13. Theories of Risk.

PART IV: LEVEL III THEORIES (DESCRIPTIVE MODELS).

14. The Relapse Prevention and Self-Regulation Models.

15. Offence, chains, offence cycles and offence process
models.

PART V: TREATMENT THEORIES.

16. The Risk-Need Treatment Model.

17. Classification and Treatment.

18. Strength Based Treatment Theories.

19. Theories of Treatment Responsivity.

PART VI: CONCLUSIONS.

20. Conclusions.

Index.

Про автора

Tony ward, Ph D, Dip Clin Psyc, is a clinical psychologist by training
and has been working in the clinical and forensic field since 1987.
He was formerly Director of the Kia Marama Sexual Offenders’ Unit
at Rolleston Prison in New Zealand, and has taught both clinical
and forensic psychology at Victoria, Canterbury, and Melbourne
Universities. He is currently the Director of Clinical Training at
Victoria University of Wellington. Professor Ward’s research
interests fall into five main areas: rehabilitation models and
issues; cognition and sex offenders; the problem behavior process
in offenders; the implications of naturalism for theory
construction and clinical practice; and assessment and case
formulation in clinical construction and clinical practice; and
assessment and case formulation in clinical psychology. He has
published over 110 research articles, chapters and books. These
include Remaking Relapse Prevention, with D.R. Laws and S.M. Hudson
(Sage, 2000) and the Source book of Treatment Programs for Sexual
Offenders, with W. l. Marshall, Y.A. Fernandez, and S.M. Hudson
(Plenum, 1998). Email: Tony. href=’mailto:Ward@vuw.ac.nz’>Ward@vuw.ac.nz

Devon Polaschek, Ph D, Dip Clin Psyc, is a senior lecturer in
criminal justice psychology at Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand, and former Director of Clinical tr5aining. her
research interests include (a) offence processes of rapists and
violent offenders, (b) cognition in and cognitive-experimental
research with violent and sexual offenders, and (c) offender
rehabilitation theory and evolution. She is also a research
Consultant to the Violence Prevention Unit at Rimutaka Prison, near
Wellington. Email: href=’mailto:Devon.Polaschek@vuw.ac.nz’>Devon.Polaschek@vuw.ac.nz.

Anthony Beech, DPhil, BSc, is professor in criminological
psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of
Birmingham and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Over
the last 10 years he has been the lead researcher of the STEP (Sex
Offender Treatment Evaluation Project) team. Here he has been
involved in treatment evaluation and the development of systems to
look at treatment need and treatment change in sex offenders. this
work is regarded as having a major influence on assessment and
treatment in the UK. he has written widely on the topi8cs of
assessment and treatment of sexual offenders, and other related
subjects. Email: href=’mailto:a.r.beech@bham.ac.uk’>a.r.beech@bham.ac.uk.