Twenty-five academics, researchers, and mental health care practitioners from the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and the U.S. contribute 13 chapters on the cognition--the basic operations involved in human perception, memory, and thinking--of aggressive offenders. The material is organized into two sections addressing two different categories of aggressive offender: The first focuses on sexual abusers, identifying sociological theory, research and practice related to child sexual abusers and rapists. The second part examines the cognition of nonsexual, generally violent offenders and treatment-related information specific to this group. For professionals working with offenders, particularly clinical forensic psychologists and forensic psychology students. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)