The Use of the Polygraph in Assessing, Treating and Supervising Sex Offenders A Practitioner's Guide
by Wilcox, DanielEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-04-27
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary
The Use of the Polygraph in Assessing, Treating and Supervising Sex Offenders presents an in-depth examination of the contribution that polygraph testing can make to offender treatment programmes, with a particular focus on sexual offenders. Features coverage of a very timely issue - the British Psychological Society has convened a working party to assess the contribution of the polygraph to forensic work Potential for greater book demand with the Home Office's current consideration of research on polygraph testing with a view to increasing its usage Primary focus on sexual offenders
Author Biography
Daniel Wilcox is a Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist based in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. He has published and presented extensively on the use of the polygraph in assessing, treating and supervising sex offenders.
Table of Contents
| About the Editor | p. ix |
| List of Contributors | p. xi |
| Series Preface | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xix |
| Foreword | p. xxiii |
| Overview: Opportunities and Responsibilities | p. 1 |
| The Clinical Use of the Polygraph with Sex Offenders: Caveats and Considerations | p. 9 |
| Pre-Conviction and Post-Conviction Polygraph Testing: A Brief History | p. 31 |
| The Empirical Evidence for the Value of Post-Conviction Polygraph in the Treatment and Supervision of Sex Offenders | p. 49 |
| Basics of Post-Conviction Sex Offender Polygraph Testing | p. 65 |
| Case Studies in the Utility of the Polygraph | p. 97 |
| Polygraph Testing Internet Offenders | p. 113 |
| Risk Assessment and the Polygraph | p. 129 |
| The Accuracy of Polygraphy in the Treatment and Supervision of Sex Offenders | p. 155 |
| Sex Offender Polygraph Testing in the United States: Trends and Controversies | p. 181 |
| Other Post-Conviction Applications of Polygraphy | p. 217 |
| Interviewing and Interrogation | p. 243 |
| Alternate Technologies for the Detection of Deception | p. 267 |
| Forensic Assessment of Sexual Interest: A Review | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 323 |
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