Sex Offender Treatment

Paper Summary:

This paper contends that traditional sex offender treatment programs may not be suitable for effectively reforming criminal behaviors and reducing recidivism especially for substance abusers, which represent between 25-50% of these offenders. It proposes a program that would be comprised of group sessions of sex offenders and victims and would include educating community members or victims and offenders about sex offenses, sexuality, addiction and opportunities for reform and rehabilitation within the community.

Outline:
Introduction
Background Information - Traditional Sex Offender Programs
Response
Aims and Objectives
Membership Screening
Sessions
Benefits
Conclusions/Recommendations

From the Paper:

"Part of the education process will include information clients of the trends typically evidenced within sexually aggressive offenders. As Lemmond & Verhaagen (2002) note, roughly 1/2 of adult sexual offenders report their first offense occurring sometime during adolescence. Sexually aggressive adults typically grow from sexually aggressive adolescent males from various classes and races. There is evidence that many youthful offenders commit rape by age 16, and those that molest may do so from the time they are 14 on."

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