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Author Laws, D. Richard, author.

Title History of the assessment of sex offenders : 1830-2020 / D. Richard Laws.

Publication Info. Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2020.

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Summary There are many varieties of procedures to assess criminal and sex offenders that have emerged throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present.
Contents Contemporary psychological assessment -- Criminal statistics and the identification of populations -- Offender classification and registration -- Phrenology : pseudoscience of the mind or precursor science? -- Criminal anthropology : Lambroso's search for criminal man -- Anthropometry : Bertillon's measurement of criminal man -- Fingerprinting : a document complete in itself -- Penile plethysmography : the search for the gold standard -- Viewing time : an alternative to PPG -- Attention-based measures : supplementary procedures -- Polygraphy : the bogus pipeline to the soul -- Virtual and augmented reality : being there -- What we learned in 190 years : 12 takeaways.
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Subject Sex offenders -- Psychological testing -- History.
Sex offenders -- Psychological testing.
History.
Crime & criminology.
Sex offenders.
Social Science -- Criminology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: LAWS, D. RICHARD. HISTORY OF THE ASSESSMENT OF SEX OFFENDERS. [Place of publication not identified] EMERALD Group PUBL, 2020 1787693600 9781787693609 (OCoLC)1124976693
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