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Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management, Volume IICritical Reflections on the Risk-Based Prevention of Sexual Offending by Young People

Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management, Volume II: Critical Reflections on the Risk-Based... [Contemporary understandings of youth offending and consequent youth justice practices in the Anglophone world have been driven by a specific risk discourse framed by the identification, measurement/assessment and prevention of risk of reoffending (reconviction) and committing serious harm to others, with ‘risk’ conceptualised as a series of statistical, quantifiable ‘factors’ amenable to targeted intervention. However, limited cogent evidence is available regarding the risk predictors for sexual offending by young people, which raises doubts over the validity of employing risk assessment and intervention models in this area.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management, Volume IICritical Reflections on the Risk-Based Prevention of Sexual Offending by Young People

Editors: Kemshall, Hazel; McCartan, Kieran

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-63572-9
Pages
63 –91
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-63573-6_3
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Contemporary understandings of youth offending and consequent youth justice practices in the Anglophone world have been driven by a specific risk discourse framed by the identification, measurement/assessment and prevention of risk of reoffending (reconviction) and committing serious harm to others, with ‘risk’ conceptualised as a series of statistical, quantifiable ‘factors’ amenable to targeted intervention. However, limited cogent evidence is available regarding the risk predictors for sexual offending by young people, which raises doubts over the validity of employing risk assessment and intervention models in this area.]

Published: Nov 26, 2017

Keywords: Young sexual offenders; Risk prediction; Prevention paradigm; Risk assessment intervention

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