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"Sexual offenders are surrounded by mythology, fascination, and revulsion. As our abusers, loved ones, clients, and supervisees, sex offenders present difficult and complicated issues interpersonally, as well as in treatment and management. Most people do not understand why and how someone who sexually abuses does what he does, so we inaccurately apply information or explanations that do nothing more than facilitate the offenders' evasion of accountability and visibility. Denial, victim blaming, aggression, and blatant chronic deception are inherent in the interactions with sexual offenders. Sex offenders, almost without fail, are not able to accept responsibility nor do they hold themselves accountable for their own behavior. Unfortunately, our failure to truly understand their motives and techniques helps provide excuses and further camouflage to their deviance. This book is specifically geared towards unmasking the offender by providing clear, comprehensible information about the motivations, techniques, and dynamics of sexual offenders. It will not only explore the biases and myths that the reader may rely upon to understand deviance, but will also explain pathways to offending, the distorted thinking and relating that offenders engage in, and the ways offenders manipulate and exploit others. The first part will be guiding the reader to explore the presumptions and assumptions commonly adopted about sexual offenders. The reader will be encouraged to challenge them and shown how common understanding of others serve to support the success of the sexual offender. The second section will focus on exposing the sexual offender using straightforward language and tangible examples. The third section will include safety and management strategies for the everyday reader, as well as the reader who might be in law enforcement or offender supervision. For the legal professional, a chapter will offer strategies for trial in sexual assault and pitfalls to avoid. For the victims, a chapter will provide some closing points about the impact of the offender, issues like forgiveness or moving on, and addressing self-blame or conflicting feelings. In this book, professionals will learn how to better listen to, understand, confront, and intervene in the sexual offense dynamics of their clients to better provide the appropriate treatment interventions. This book is intended for anyone interested in learning about offenders. It will be written to be useful for both professionals and non-professionals, including students, paralegals, victim advocates, and others involved in the criminal justice system or mental health field"--

"Understanding Victims of Interpersonal Violence: A Guide for Investigators and Prosecutors provides accessible information for criminal justice personnel "in the trenches" with victims of violence to aid in understanding and explaining their behavior. This guide sheds light on interpersonal violence victims' decisions and actions by providing context and naming factors that commonly impact victim responses. These include internal factors such as culture, religion, shame, and personality, as well as external factors like access to services, support systems, and resources. These factors inhibit or facilitate responses like disclosure, resistance, and participation (or lack thereof) in their prosecution. This book also explores the influence of the perpetrator, as well more deeply examining victim responses that typically offer challenges to investigators and prosecutors, like continued contact with the offender, lack of resistance, and issues in disclosure. Finally, the guide provides concrete tools to assist investigators in interviewing and for prosecutors to use during the prosecutorial process. This book is designed for investigators, prosecutors, advocates, criminal justice practitioners, and students of these subjects"--

"Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender. Crimes of intimate violence tend to compel investigators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys to fixate on the victim's behavior to prove or disprove a case. Prosecutors become helpless faced with uncooperative victims, challenging facts, or attacks on the victims' credibility prosecution can rely on evidence and offender-focused interviewing, investigation, and case construction. This book will offer investigators and prosecutors concrete information and techniques to construct and present offender focused cases in crimes of intimate violence. First we will challenge the reader's biases and assumptions about intimate violence, providing information that will dispel pervasive myths and misinformation we maintain. We will explain the motivations and techniques that offenders use on their victims to ensure the victims' silence, compliance, and resistance to prosecution. The second section will address specific steps that investigators and prosecutors can take for offender-focused prosecution, including interviewing practices, conducting evidence-based investigations, selecting and preparing a jury, and building an offender-focused prosecution through the case. The reader will be offered practical and attainable practices and skills. This book will be primarily intended for investigators or prosecutors. However, it will be accessible to paralegals, victim advocates, judges, and others involved in the criminal justice system to utilize"--