Sexual Offending

Amy Phenix, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist in California in private practice. Her expertise includes sex offender evaluation and risk assessment. She completes evaluations pursuant to the Sexually Violent Predator/Persons Statutes and serves as an expert witness in those cases in several states with similar laws. In her capacity as a trainer she provides instruction in sex offender risk assessment, the use of the Static-99R, report writing and issues in court testimony. She has served as Consulting Psychologist for the California Department of Mental Health Sexual Offender Commitment Program from its inception in 1996 to 2008. Harry M. Hoberman, Ph.D., L.P. is a forensic and clinical psychologist licensed in several states. While on the faculty of the University of Minnesota in the Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Pediatrics and Child Development, he was the principal investigator on several funded research projects related to psychosocial risk factors and mental health service utilization as well as developing and supervising psychosocial treatments. Currently, he practices exclusively as a forensic psychologist and specializes in risk assessment of violent behavior. He has contracts with various states and the Federal government to conduct evaluations and consult regarding risk assessment. In addition, he conducts forensic evaluations and provides expert witness testimony related to areas of concern. Dr. Hoberman was twice elected to the Executive Board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and has served on the public policy committee of that organization for over 10 years.

An Integrated Theory of Sexual Offending.- Part I: Disorders and Types of Sexual Offending.- Pedophilia.- Hebephilic Sexual Offending.- Rape and Paraphilic Coercive Disorder.- Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault.- Non-Contact Sexual Offenses: Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, Possession of Child Pornography and Interacting with Children Over the Internet.- Hypersexuality Disorder.- Personality, Motivators and Disinhibition in Sexual Offending.- Adolescents Who Have Engaged in Sexually Abusive Behavior: An Overview.- Female Sex Offenders.- Part II: Assessment and Risk Appraisal of Sexual Offenders.- Assessment, Diagnosis and Risk Management of Sexual Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities.- Issues and Methods in Assessment.- Clinical Strategies for Evaluating Sex Offenders.- Structured Psychological Assessment.- Psychophysiological Assessment of Sexual Preferences.- Principles and Practices of Forensic Evaluations of Sexual Offenders.- Conceptual Model of Risk versus Threat and Risk Management versus Risk Reduction.- Risk Factors and Risk Assessments for Sexual Offense Recidivism.- Overview of the Development, Reliability, Validity, Scoring, and Uses of the Static-99, Static-99R, Static-2000, and Static-2002R.- Sex Offender Base Rates of Sexual Recidivism after Controlling for Static-99/R.- The Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG).- The Minnesota Sex Offender Screening Tool-3.1 (Mnsost-3.1).- Structured Risk Assessment.- Beyond Static Risk Assessments? Assessment of Psychologically Meaningful Risk Factors via STABLE-2007 and the SRA: FV.- Assessing Sexual Violence Risk and Evaluating Change with the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender Version.- Structured Professional Judgment: Applications to Sexual Offender Risk Assessment and Management.- Part III: Management and Public Policy Issues Regarding Sexual Offenders.- Models of Sexual Offender Treatment.- Forensic Psychotherapy for Sexual Offenders: Has its Effectiveness Yet Been Demonstrated?.- Forensic Psychotherapy for Sexual Offenders: Likely Factors Contributing to Its Apparent Ineffectiveness.- The Containment Approach: A Strategy for Community Management of Sex Offenders.- Circles of Support & Accountability: The Role of the Community in Effective Sexual Offender Risk Management.- Pharmacotherapy for Sexual Offenders.- Surgical Castration and Sexual Recidivism Risk.- Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders likely to Reoffend.- Prosecutor; Perspective on Sexually Violent Predator Cases.- Sexually Violent Predator Law From the Defense Perspective.- Reconciling Sex Offender Management Policy, Research, and Practice.- An Evidence-Based Perspective on Sex Offender Registration and Residential Restrictions.