Challenges in the Management of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence

Section 1: Sexual Offending Behaviours.- Chapter 1: The Complexities of Understanding Sexual Grooming Behaviours, Georgia Winters, Sharron Spriggs, & Elizabeth L. Jeglic.- Chapter 2: Understanding Sexual Fantasising: Implications for Forensic Practice and Research, Ross M. Bartels.- Chapter 3: Lethal Outcome in Sexual Assaults: Predicting the Unpredictable?, Eric Beauregard.- Chapter 4: Abuse at the heart of the family: The challenges and complexities of sibling sexual abuse, Peter Yates & Stuart Allardyce.- Section 2: Assessment of People who have Committed a Sexual Offence.- Chapter 5: Using Indirect Measures of Sexual Interest in Forensic Contexts: Past, Present, and Future, Alexander F. Schmidt & Rainer Banse.- Chapter 6: Working with Individuals who have accessed Child Sexual Exploitation Material: Assessment Strategies and Future Developments, Hannah L. Merdian & Derek E. Perkins.- Chapter 7: We Are Not There Yet: Contemporary Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management, Kasia Uzieblo, Tamara de Beuf, Minne De Boeck, & Wineke J. Smid.- Chapter 8: Towards an Integration of Risk Assessment, Case Formulation, and Forensic Neuroscience,Leam A. Craig & Martin Rettenberger.- Section 3: Treatment of People Exhibiting Deviant Sexual Interests and/or Behaviours.- Chapter 9: Future Directions in the Treatment of Sexual Self-Regulation Problems in People Who Have Sexually Offended, Wineke J. Smid.- Chapter 10: Applying RNR Principles to Effectively Treat People Who Have Committed a Sexual Offence, Sandy Jung.-  Chapter 11: Prison Climate and Rehabilitating Men with Sexual Convictions, Nicholas Blagden.- Chapter 12: They Need Somebody, and Not Just Anybody: Help-Seeking Behaviour in Minor-Attracted Persons, Kasia Uzieblo & Minne De Boeck.-  Chapter 13: How to Thrive as a Provider of Treatment to Those

Kasia Uzieblo is Senior Researcher at the Research Department of the Forensic Care Specialists in Utrecht, Netherlands, and Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology of the Free University Brussels, Belgium. Her teaching, trainings and research focus on sexual/family violence and forensic assessment, including risk assessment.

Wineke J. Smid is Head of the Research Department at Forensic Care Specialists in Utrecht, Netherlands. She conducts empirical research (e.g., the etiology of sexual deviance), carries out individual (risk) assessments of residential high-risk sex offenders and is European master trainer for the risk assessment instruments Static-99R, Stable-2007 and Acute-2007.

Kieran McCartan researches sexual offending, risk management, trauma informed practice, and developmental criminology at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is an executive board member of ATSA and NOTA, the chair of the Confederation of European Probation working group on sexual offenses, and advises the Council of Europe.