The chapter seeks to demonstrate and describe, from a critical perspective, the most widespread treatment models and programs for sex offenders in prison, opting for integrated approach based on risk assessment and the evaluation of their psychological and social characteristics. Furthermore, specifying ...
This study examined the utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) to identify prison inmates in a mandatory sex offender treatment program prone to engage in institutional misconduct. Archival PAI and institutional disciplinary data were coded for 137 inmates in treatment for an average of...
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The concept of "imprinting" is used to explain, in part, the origin of someone becoming a sex offender. Many sex offenders were sexually abused during their childhood or youth. Two case histories of male sex offenders, a 16-year old and an 18-year old in a prison treatment program, pro...
Both sex offender groups had higher Novelty, Seeking and lower Reward Dependence, Self-Directedness and Cooperativeness scores compared with the controls. Plasma levels of testosterone and dihydrotestosterone were significantly higher in rapists than in controls. Novelty Seeking scores were positively ...
In addition, sending offenders who deny their crime to prison only postpones the inevitable, because most will eventually return to the community on parole. Responsible programming requires a continuum of treatment services. A combination of internal and external controls is needed and inextricably ...
Gov Jim Douglas proposed a new legislation that would require civil commitments for violent sex offenders at the end of their prison sentences. The governor called for state evaluations of offenders before release, with a requirement that mental health treatment would continue for those deemed unprepar...
Research evidence demonstrates that sex offender treatment programmes (SOTPs) can reduce the number of sex offenders who are reconvicted. However, there has been much less empirical research exploring the experiences and perspectives of the prison environment within which treatment takes place. This is...
Medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment for paraphiliac sex offenders Throughout history, castration has been used to punish sex of-fenders.'By the late 1900s, most castration sentences were disallowed on appeal, and a relieved public lauded itself for living in more enlightened times. 2 However, in...
Outcome evaluation of a high-intensity inpatient sex offender treatment program. The treatment outcome of a high-intensity inpatient sex offender treatment program was evaluated by comparing the sexual recidivism rates of 472 treated an... ME Olver,SCP Wong,TP Nicholaichuk - 《J Interpers Violence...