General issues
The criminological perspective
Defining and measuring desistance
The age-crime curve: a brief overview
Theoretical perspectives on desistance
Factors influencing desistance
Two major theories of desistance
The forensic psychological perspective
Do sex offenders desist?
Sex offender treatment and desistance
Reentry and reintegration
Barriers to reentry and reintegration
Overcoming barriers to reentry and reintegration
Recruitment
The unknown sex offenders: bringing them in from the cold
Blending theory and practice: a criminological perspective
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
Where to from here?
Dignity, punishment, and human rights: the ethics of desistance
Moral strangers or one of us? Concluding thoughts.
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Desistance from sex offending : alternatives to throwing away the keys by D. Richard Laws. ISBN 9781606239353. Published by Guilford Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
