Overview
- Comprehensive sections and chapters authored by experts in their fields
- Provides a foundational, research-based, multidiscplinary approach to complex topics
- Takes a critical and compelling issue in directions that will appeal to students, researchers, practioners, and clinicians
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This timely handbook provides in-depth overviews of the myriad and multi-faceted issues surrounding sexual assault and its pervasiveness in today’s culture. Drawing for multiple viewpoints and experts, the book is divided into seven comprehensive sections, covering such topics as risk factors, varying theoretical frameworks, prevention and intervention, and special populations. Within these sections the authors provide historical background as well as the latest research, and offer treatment outcomes and potentials.Selected topics covered in this book include:
- Feminist theories of sexual assault
- Social and economic factors surrounding sexual violence
- Mental, physiological, physical, and functional health concerns of victims, including PTSD
- Major categories of sexual offenders
- Treatment of sexual assault survivors in the LGBTQ+ community
- Procedural processes related to sexual assault investigation and adjudication within thecriminal justice system
The Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention is a vital book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of students, researchers, practitioners, and clinicians in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, community mental health, and sociology.
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Keywords
- history of sexual assault
- reporting of sexual assault
- epidemiology of sexual assault
- sexual harrassment
- cultural issues in sexual assault
- social policy and sexual assault
- public policy and sexual assault
- cross-cultural studies of sexual assault
- sexual assault prevention
- feminist perspective on sexual assault
- alcohol and sexual assault
- risk factors for sexual assault
- Blame and shame in sexual assault
- memory and sexual assault
- sexual dysfunction and sexual assault
- Sexual assault at college campuses
- sexual victimization advocacy programs
- treating victims of sexual assault
- Sexual assault and the law
- PTSD and sexual assault
Table of contents (49 chapters)
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Theories of Sexual Assault
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Culture and Society
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Risk Factors of Sexual Victimization and Perpetration
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
William O’Donohue, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a licensed psychologist in Nevada and Director of the Victims of Crime Treatment Center that provides free treatment to child and adult victims of sexual assault. He has published over 80 books and 300 journal articles and chapters.
Paul Schewe, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice in the College of LAS at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has served as the director of UIC’s Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Violence. He is a clinical/community psychologist whose work ranges from basic research identifying factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence, to developing preventive interventions, to using evaluation and dissemination strategies to further develop existing violence prevention programs for agencies, communities, and statewide networks of service providers. The focus of his research includes sexual assault, teen dating violence, domestic violence, and early childhood interventions to promote positive social-emotional development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention
Editors: William T. O’Donohue, Paul A. Schewe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23645-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23644-1Published: 06 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23647-2Published: 06 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23645-8Published: 18 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 857
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Psychology, Social Work, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Forensic Psychology