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A History of the Assessment of Sex Offenders - 1830-2020 (Hardcover)
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A History of the Assessment of Sex Offenders - 1830-2020 (Hardcover)
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Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers
involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp
of where the field stands. Many of their colleagues do not have an
appreciation of why we are where we are. This book is an attempt to
bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex
offender assessment from 1830 to the present. Topics covered in
this book include early efforts to identify and describe criminal
populations statistically; the introduction of phrenology as a
description of brain function; the efforts of criminal
anthropologists to develop criminal taxonomies; the technology of
anthropometry to identify individuals by measurement of bodily
structure; and the introduction of fingerprinting which replaced
anthropometry and remains largely unchanged to the present day. The
guiding principle of the book is to help the reader understand that
all of this represents a continuous thread of development and,
disparate as they might seem, all of them are connected. This book
is essential reading for undergraduates in psychology and
sociology, as well as professionals in training and early stages of
practice.
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