Main description:

Sexual Offending presents the latest theory and research relating to the social cognition, emotion, and motivational goals of individuals who have committed sexual offences. * Explores how individuals who have committed sexual offences perceive the world and themselves, and how understanding this can inform their rehabilitation * Provides a broad-based view of cognition, and explores the complex relationship between cognition, emotion and associated constructs such as motivational goals * Integrates recent work on female sexual offenders alongside the literature on their male counterparts, providing researchers and practitioners with a single resource * A valuable handbook for researchers, practitioners and students concerned with understanding and rehabilitating individuals who have committed sexual offences

Contents:

Notes on Editors ix Notes on Contributors xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv 1 Emotion, Cognition and Motivation: An Enactive Perspective 1 Tony Ward 2 The Role of Cognition, Emotion and Motivational Goals in Sexual Offending: Multi Factor Models 17 Ross M. Bartels 3 Cognitive Explanations of Sexual Offending 35 Caoilte O Ciardha 4 Bridging the Cognitive Emotion Divide: Empathy and Sexual Offending 53 Sarah J. Brown 5 Emotions and Sexual Offending 71 Nicholas Blagden, Rebecca Lievesley and Jayson Ware 6 Motivators, Self Regulation and Sexual Offending 89 Jill D. Stinson 7 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Treatment for Individuals who have Sexually Offended 109 Geris A. Serran 8 Cognition, Emotion and Motivation: Future Directions in Sexual Offending 127 Theresa A. Gannon and Tony Ward Index 147