Bøker av CR Hollin

Explores clinical approaches used by practitioners working with young offenders. It opens with coverage of theories of delinquency, types of delinquent activity and recent findings from criminological research on the developmental issues in delinquency.

This "Essential Handbook" provides the critical elements from its companion volume, the successful Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment. A comprehensive review of assessment and treatment, it covers the major offender groups: sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with mental and personality disorders, and property offenders.

There is a growing consensus that offender rehabilitation, prison regimes, and the treatment of offenders with special needs, must be based on research, methods and experience that are effective, humane and related to individual, organizational, and social considerations.