Desistance from Sex Offending: Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys

Part I: General Issues. Introduction. Part II: The Criminological Perspective. Defining and Measuring Desistance. The Age-Crime Curve: A Brief Overview. Major Theories of Desistance. Factors Influencing Desistance. Two Major Theories of Desistance. Part III: The Forensic Psychological Perspective. Do Sex Offenders Desist? Sex Offender Treatment and Desistance. Part IV: Reentry and Reintegration. Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration. Overcoming Barriers to Reentry and Reintegration. Part V: Recruitment. The Unknown Sex Offenders: Bringing Them in from the Cold. Blending Theory and Practice: A Crimininological Perspective. Part VI: Desistance-Focused Intervention. The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation: Basic Assumptions, Etiological Commitments, and Practice Implications. The Good Lives Model and Desistance Theory and Research: Points of Convergence. The Good Lives-Desistance Model: Assessment and Treatment. Part VII:Where to from Here? Dignity, Punishment, and Human Rights: The Ethics of Desistance. Moral Strangers or One of Us?: Concluding Thoughts.