Main description:

* Practical, clear information enables the reader to hone skills in working with victims and perpetrators, whether in a relationship, treatment, or supervision of the offender

* Professionals, survivors, and their families need to understand the thinking and manipulations of offenders, especially as more survivors are coming forward in the #MeToo age

* Valliere fills a gap in the available information on the criminality, personality, and distorted world view of the sexual offender, describing deviance in a way that can help shift the reader's understanding and perception of the perpetrator

Contents:

Introduction

Section I: The Offender's Best Weapon: Society as the Audience to the Offense

1. The Co-Defendants: The Role of the Audience to a Sexual Offense

2. Weaponized Humanity: Why We Offer Denial and Disbelief to Offenders

3. Myth-Information: Our Misinformed Beliefs about Sexual Offenders

4. "I Know Him - He's Not Like That": The Struggle to Believe

5. The Theater of Sexual Assault: The Act versus the Production

Section II: Unmasking the Sex Offender

6. Defining Deviance: The Pathway to Offending

7. Character Deviance: "He's Not Sick - He's Bad"

8. Sexual Deviance: The Sexual Pathway to Offending

9. Tools of the Trade: The Manipulations of the Offender

Section III: Prevention, Intervention, and Managing Relationships with Offenders

10. How Can I Have a Relationship with an Offender?

11. Assessing Promises: What Does Real Change Look Like?

12. "But I Am Telling the Truth!": Suggestions for Investigation, Supervision, and Treatment of Offenders

13. Prevention Tips and Strategies

14. "No Victims, No Excuses": Conclusion

Appendix A - Important Concepts to Remember

Appendix B - Important Concepts for Family Members/Spouse of the Offender

Appendix C - Questions to Understand the Offender and His Deviance

Index