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100	1		_aLaws, D. Richard, _eauthor. _958647
245	1	2	_aA history of the assessment of sex offenders : _b1830-2020 / _cby D. Richard Laws.
264		1	_aBingley, U.K. : _bEmerald Publishing Limited, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) ; _ccm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aPart I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Contemporary psychological assessment: two approaches -- Part II: Assessment of criminal and sex offenders: 19th and 20th centuries -- Chapter 2: Criminal statistics and the identification of populations -- Chapter 3: Offender classification and registration -- Chapter 4: Phrenology: pseudoscience of the mind or precursor science? -- Chapter 5: Criminal anthropology: Lombroso's search for criminal man -- Chapter 6: Anthropometry: Bertillon's measurement of criminal man -- Chapter 7: Fingerprinting: a document complete in itself -- Part III: Assessment of sex offenders: 20th and 21st centuries -- Chapter 8: Penile plethysmography: the search for the gold standard -- Chapter 9: Viewing time: an alternative to PPG -- Chapter 10: Attention-based measures: supplementary procedures -- Chapter 11: Polygraphy: the bogus pipeline to the soul -- Part IV: Assessment of sex offenders: possible futures -- Chapter 12: Virtual reality assessment: being there -- Part V: Conclusions -- Chapter 13: What we learned in 190 years: 12 takeaways -- Index.
520			_aMost forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the field stands. Many of their colleagues do not have an appreciation of why we are where we are. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present. Topics covered in this book include early efforts to identify and describe criminal populations statistically; the introduction of phrenology as a description of brain function; the efforts of criminal anthropologists to develop criminal taxonomies; the technology of anthropometry to identify individuals by measurement of bodily structure; and the introduction of fingerprinting which replaced anthropometry and remains largely unchanged to the present day. The guiding principle of the book is to help the reader understand that all of this represents a continuous thread of development and, disparate as they might seem, all of them are connected. This book is essential reading for undergraduates in psychology and sociology, as well as professionals in training and early stages of practice.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
650		0	_aSex offenders _xHistory. _958648
650		0	_aCriminal anthropology. _958649
650		0	_aSex offenders _xPsychology. _958650
650		7	_aSocial Science _xCriminology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aCrime & criminology. _2bicssc _957319
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856	4	0	_uHttps://doi.org/10.1108/9781787693593
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