Preventing Sex-Offender Recidivism Through Therapeutic Jurisprudence Approaches and Specialized Community Integration

Therapeutic Jurisprudence: an Ethical Paradigm for Therapists in Sex Offender Treatment Programs

Clinicians in sex offender treatment programs are required to resolve the ethical dilemmas, which invariably arise in this sort of work, by breaching traditional mental health ethical principles such as maintaining confidentiality and promoting patient autonomy. Indeed the mark of a “good” therapist is their primary focus on the protection of the community rather than on the interests of the of...

Promoting Offender Accountability and Community Safety Through the Comprehensive Approach to Sex Offender Management

In response to the historically fragmented efforts to manage sex offenders within the criminal justice system and treatment community, it has been suggested that goals of offender accountability and community safety can be better attained through a more comprehensive, coordinated, and systemic approach. Anchored by a series of fundamental principles, the comprehensive approach to sex offender m...

The impact of prison-based treatment on sex offender recidivism: evidence from Minnesota.

Using a retrospective quasi-experimental design, this study evaluates the effectiveness of prison-based treatment by examining recidivism outcomes among 2,040 sex offenders released from Minnesota prisons between 1990 and 2003 (average follow-up period of 9.3 years). To reduce observed selection bias, the authors used propensity score matching to create a comparison group of 1,020 untreated sex...

Impacts of Sex Offender Notification on Community Behavior

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