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Title: If This Book Had an Honest Title...
Review: almost no one would have bought it. It's not about assessing sex offenders at all. It's an attack on the civil commitment of sex offenders. The author spends the entire book attacking the assessment methods used in the civil commitment process. Even this attack is false, since Campbell is an ideologue who opposes committing sex offenders and has a new line of attack every year. It's not surprising that Dr. Campbell has no suggestions at all on how sex offenders should be assessed, since he has never worked with sex offenders. He's too busy writing books attacking things other people do. The ethical code of the American Psychological Association prohibits psychologists from practicing outside their area of knowledge, but apparently Dr. Campbell is above such petty rules. For anyone who needs real information about evaluating sex offenders, see Dennis Doren's book.
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