Do Statistically Significant Changes Approximate Clinically Significant Changes Among Sex Offenders Completing a Treatment Program?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Nunes ◽  
K. M. Babchishin ◽  
F. Cortini
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Clinically Significant

scholarly journals “Mr S, you do have sexual fantasies?” The Parole Hearing and Treatment of a Sex Offender at the Turn of the 21st Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Offender Treatment ◽  
Sex Offender Treatment ◽  
Sexual Fantasies ◽  
Parole Board ◽  
Clear Sign ◽  
Prevention Plan

How does the Parole Board decide a sex offender is rehabilitated and can be released into the community? This case study of a parole hearing reveals the significance the Parole Board gives to a sex offender’s management of his arousal as a clear sign of his rehabilitation. To explain the Board’s preoccupation with a sex offender’s sexual fantasies and arousal, I draw on a prison ethnography of a sex offender treatment program. Rehabilitation as risk management relies on the development of a crime cycle and relapse prevention plan designed to grasp the connection between fantasies, arousal and offending. I argue the parole hearing and treatment program exist in a symbiotic relationship that fabricates the sex offender into a species larger than life, one at risk of offending all the time. Key words: rehabilitation, sex offenders, parole, sexual fantasies, ethnography, prison.

An Evaluation and 1-Year Follow-Up Study of a Community-Based Treatment Program for Sex Offenders

1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph K.P. Lee ◽  
Michael J. Proeve ◽  
Margaret Lancaster ◽  
Henry J. Jackson ◽  
Pip Paitison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Follow Up Study

Sex offenders: Identifing who can complete a residential treatment program

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Gully ◽  
Christine Mitchell ◽  
Clifford Butter ◽  
Richard Harwood
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Residential Treatment ◽  
Treatment Program

Therapeutic Climate Within a Treatment Program for Categorical Deniers

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (8) ◽  
pp. 2216-2235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayson Ware
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Group Climate ◽  
Therapeutic Bond ◽  
Open Expression ◽  
Over Time

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the therapeutic climate within a sex offender “deniers” program, where denial was not challenged, would be equivalent to the therapeutic climate within a conventional program where sex offenders were admitting responsibility. Using a sample of 77 sex offenders, therapeutic alliance and group climate were measured early and late in treatment. As expected, therapeutic alliance was more difficult to attain with deniers early in treatment, particularly therapeutic bond; however, by the end of the treatment, there were no significant differences in therapeutic alliance. There did not appear to be significant differences in group climate early or late in treatment except for the deniers reporting significantly lower levels of open expression of anger and disagreement within the group and, in contrast to the admitters, making significant improvements in group climate over time. Implications for the treatment of categorical deniers and further research suggestions are discussed.

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