The psychosocial development of sex offenders: differences between exhibitionists, child molesters, and incest offenders

Article Abstract:

Offenders guilty of different crimes respond differently to therapy. Analyzing the psychosocial development of incest offenders, extra-familial child molesters and exhibitionists exemplifies this. The Measures of Psychosocial Development was completed at intake by 81 men in an outpatient sex offender treatment program. Results showed that both exhibitionists and extra-familial child molesters had issues of shame, trust, and immediate gratification, while incest offenders had higher levels of development than the other groups. These results indicate the therapeutic interventions which would be effective and the result of such interventions.

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Adolescent sex offenders: investigating adult commitment-rates four years later

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An analysis of teenage sex offenders four years after treatment by a residential program in Idaho showed that the peer treatment approach used produced recidivism rates comparable to more specialized and expensive sex offender treatment efforts. The recidivism rates were most typically 10%. Reconviction was usually do to a property crime. The effectiveness of this program could have been partly due to the predominantly rural nature of the offenders which allowed concentration on an active approach designed to foster behavior change. The administrative philosophy of the facility was of equal importance, though.

Analysis, Juvenile offenders, Recidivism

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The proportions of different types of sex offenders and the degree of difficulty in treating them: a comparison of perceptions by clinicians in Taiwan and Michigan

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Clinicians treating sex offenders in Michigan and Taiwan ranked the degree of difficulty in treatment options almost identically. Clincal experience in these areas varied, as did proportions of child molesters and rapists.

Taiwan, Michigan, Psychological aspects, Rapists, Child sexual abusers

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