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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"offender treatment"”.
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Perceptions Of Legal Policy And Sex Offender Treatment
<p>Sex offender policy, treatment, and public perception are greatly intertwined in the numerous policies in place regarding sex offenders. These policies tend to reflect the underlying perceptions and myths about sex offenders than the reality of sexual offenses and treatment. These perceptions …
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The Evaluation of Sharper Future: A Community-Based Sex Offender Treatment Program
… Abuse Services Coordinating Agency (SASCA) sex offender treatment program was conducted in order to ascertain whether the program is meeting its treatment goals as outlined by the SASCA contract and Sharper Future program goals. The participants of this evaluation were 248 past male Sharper …
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Variables That Predict Burnout Among Sex Offender Treatment Providers: Work Setting, Gender, Work Hours
Psychological treatment of the sexual offender population continues to be an arduous task for therapists. There is evidence that many therapists will experience burnout at some point during their careers. Providing treatment in a burned out state can cause harm to the therapist, client, and …
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The effect of training on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sex offender treatment program
… on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sexual offender treatment program. Fifty-two juvenile court probation officers were trained to assess and identify adolescent sex offenders who met program referral criteria. Pre- and post-training tests were administered to measure the effect of training …
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Working Towards Desistance: Canadian Public's Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders, Sex Offender Treatment, and Policy
Understanding public attitudes towards sex offenders and public endorsement of sex offender policy is essential to the development of successful and workable policies that reduce sexual recidivism. The current research examined Canadian attitudes towards sex offenders, support for sex offender …
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Treating Sex Offender Denial: Measuring Client Change and Contributing Therapeutic Factors
… a serious impediment to the most effective sex offender treatment. Research in support of this contention is limited, as is research into the specific content and process components which may reduce denial. Additionally, perhaps because sex offenders are so reviled by the public, soliciting …
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Current issues in the treatment of sexual offenders
This thesis investigates the debate around sex offender treatment efficacy. Numerous methods are utilised to explore this topic, including a meta-analysis (N =15,931), empirical research (N =322) and a single case study. Chapter 1 reviews the efficacy of sex offender treatment in relation to study …
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Working with sexual offenders: the training and support needs SOTP facilities
… of scholarly material has been published on sex offender treatment, particularly relating to cognitive behavioural techniques. Alongside this, there has been a gradual recognition by academics and practitioners in the field of the particular challenges faced by those providing treatment for …
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"I'm better now": Sexual offender narratives of moral habilitation
… pro-social standard of daily ethical conduct. Treatment programs for sexual offenders are enterprises in moral habilitation that involve instilling participants with new values, beliefs, and practices. This research represents a person-centred ethnography that combined concepts of morality, …
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Trauma resolution treatment as an adjunt to stand treatment for sexual offenders
… relapse prevention therapy for sex offenders. Ten adjudicated sex offenders with sexual abuse histories were treated with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as an adjunct to standard outpatient sex offender treatment. Data points include self-report, other-report, …
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Parental bonding, adult romantic attachment, fear of intimacy, and cognitive distortions among child molesters.
… controls. Child molesters receiving sex offender treatment reported more problematic parental bonding; insecure adult romantic attachment; negative views of self, world/others, and the future; a greater fear of intimacy, and more cognitive distortions regarding adult-child sex. The …
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Risk to public safety posed by adjudicated delinquent juvenile sex offenders: Do they really need to register
… among a sample of delinquent juvenile sexual offenders (JSOs) following commitment to a state juvenile correctional agency. Both juvenile and adult recidivism rates were studied. The results showed a low rate of sexual recidivism and a high rate of non-sexual recidivism across a 4-year …
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Working with learning disabled sex offenders: a qualitative study of the experiences of staff working on a treatment programme
… the experiences of staff working on a sex offender treatment programme for people with a learning disability. This area has not previously been the subject of research. Method: Semi-structured interviews were carried out with eight participants working on a treatment programme for sex …
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Using Art Therapy and TF-CBT to Reduce Anxiety adn Depression in Adolescents Who Have Sexually Offended
… services as an integral part of juvenile sex offender treatment, and to address anxiety and depression in adolescents that have a history of trauma. The art therapy program will decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression so that the adolescent can participate more efficiently in the sexual …
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Variables predictive of assessment and treatment outcome in adult sex offenders in Western Australia
… study examines differences between a) sex offenders who entered treatment (N = 117) and those who did not enter treatment (N =51), and b) sex offenders who completed treatment successfully (N = 83) and those who did not complete successfully (N = 22), The two samples were derived from a …
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Exploring the beliefs about sex and relationships held by sex offenders with an intellectual disability
… the existing research literature concerning sex offenders with an intellectual disability and to offer direct implications for the treatment of these individuals within the National Offender Management Service1 (NOMS). The thesis concerns the exploration of the beliefs about sex and relationships …
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The profiling of robbery offenders
… analysed commercial armed robbery, grouping offenders in terms of an apparent scale of professionalism to amateurism. Within armed robbery, target hardening strategies appear to have reduced opportunities for professionals, with a corresponding increase in amateur armed robbers fuelled by …
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Understanding Individuals who Access Sexualised Images of Children
… development and characteristics of this group of offenders is underdeveloped and only recently have researchers begun to develop typologies of those who access CSAI (e.g., Houtepen, Sijtsema & Bogaerts, 2014). Similarly, the development of tools to effectively assess and treat internet sexual …
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Personality characteristics, attitudes and perceptions of rape among incarcerated sex offenders
… was examined in a sample of incarcerated sex offenders. Previous surveys have shown that dispositional variables are determinants of sexual aggression. Research has also shown that situational variables, such as alcohol and anger, are recurrent proximal determinants of sexual aggression. This …
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"Sowing the Seeds for Change" A process evaluation of Te Kakano, the SAFE Programme for Maori men who have sexually offended against children
In the field of sexual offender treatment, there is limited literature on cultural influences and processes in therapy. Conventional treatment approaches for minority groups, including Maori in Aotearoa/ New Zealand, may be less effective if interventions are not culturally responsive. This thesis …
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