A community treatment programme for convicted child sex offenders: A preliminary report

Mezey, Gillian; Vizard, Eileen; Hawkes, Colin; Austin, Richard

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“…The method used in the Young Abusers Project is called The Integrated Abuse Cycle (Fig. 1) and is developed from earlier work with adult sex offenders (Mezey et al, 1990) and juvenile abusers (Lane, 1978). Such abuse cycles are based on a cognitive model of sexual offending in which the urge to sexually offend is triggered by external cues, such as the sight of a targeted child with the desired physical qualities, and where the fantasies then created are rehearsed and elaborated in patterns of masturba tion which become compulsive and eventually require an outlet in acts of abuse against a child.…”

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Thiseditorial describes theethical and systemic issues relevant to work with young sexual offenders against other children and outlines a proposed model for assessment. The need for assessment and treatment provi sions for children who sexually abuse other children has become increasingly apparent with greater understanding about the extent of sexual abuse carried out by juveniles (NCH, 1992). The picture from clinical work and from research studies suggests that the earliest possible intervention with abusing behaviour is needed to prevent escalation of the problem (Vizard, 1995). A semi-structured interview format has been designed to assist clinicians in the task of assessing risk, dangerousness and the treatabiity of juveniles who sexually abuse other children and young people. Active techniques have been developed to help overcome resistance and denial in young sexual offenders and to map patterns of sexual arousal. This model was developed from the psychiatric assessment of 80 young abusers between the age of 8â€"21years (mean age 14.7 years) who were referred to a specialist outpatient unit. Ethical issues Many professionals are reluctant to have labels such as â€˜¿ sex offender', â€˜¿ abuser' or â€˜¿ perpetrator' attached to their child clients. Such important ethical considerations are closely connected to the major definitional issues surrounding work with young sexual abusers of children (Vizard et a!, 1995). The crux of the debate about definitional and ethical issues is whether it is the child who is being labelled or the behaviour. The behaviour itself may

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Section: Stage 2: Mapping the Abuse: The Fantasies Strategies And Bementioning

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“…In Western countries where information is available, about half the male sentenced prison population of the over 59s are sex offenders (Greenfield, 1997 ;Home Office, 1998 ;Uzoaba, 1998). In a community treatment programme in England, elderly sex offenders constituted around 15 % of referrals (Mezey et al 1991). We report in this paper data comparing the psychiatric characteristics of 101 men aged over 59 years who were sentenced for sex offences with 102 men sentenced for non-sexual offences.…”

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Psychiatric, demographic and personality characteristics of elderly sex offenders

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“…Other samples from community treatment programmes have found between one third (Lewin er af., 1994) and two thirds (Mezey et aL, 1991) of child sex offenders of all ages had victims under the age of 11 at the onset of abuse. Usually the extra-familial offences involved the children of acquaintances or neighbours who were placed in the offender's care.…”

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“…Data were recorded according to a previous study of child sex offenders (Mezey et al, 1991) and included demographic information, and details of past deprivation or victimization, drug or alcohol misuse, past sexual and non-sexual offending, psychiatric history and the index offence. Data were recorded according to a previous study of child sex offenders (Mezey et al, 1991) and included demographic information, and details of past deprivation or victimization, drug or alcohol misuse, past sexual and non-sexual offending, psychiatric history and the index offence.…”

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“…It is possible to estimate the proportion of child sex abusers who are over 65 only by looking at statistics that are not specifically designed to give this information. Bernard (1975) found 4% of a group of Dutch paedophiles to be over 60; Mezey et al (1991) found 14.5% of men referred to a community treatment programme for child sex offenders to be over the age of 60. Abel et al (1987) found 2.7% of their large sample of sex offenders of all types to be over 60.…”

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Elderly sex offenders against children: A descriptive study of child sex abusers over the age of 65

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Mezey

1997

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

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A group of 13 child sex abusers over the age of 65 years is described. They are similar in most respects to sex offenders against children in other age groups, with regard to the seriousness of the abusive behaviours described, but they differ in terms of being of higher socioeconomic status, having stable backgrounds and reporting low rates of personal sexual victimization. These factors may contribute to their apparent skill in avoidin detecdemonstrate low levels of psychiatric illness, and in particular of organic disorders. There appears to be an increased tendency by the courts to consider non-custodial disposal options for elderly sex offenders as they are perceived as being less of a risk and their physical frailty may make them less able to tolerate the rigours of prison life.tion. In common with younger child sex abusers, these elderly o B fenders Little has been written about the elderly child sex abuser. This may reflect a view that old age is inevitably accompanied by a decrease in sexual desire and functioning, which has perhaps created the assumption that there is an automatic decrease in risk as the young sex offender ages. Goodwin et al. (1983) state that 'men who molest children in old age are unlikely to repeat

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A community treatment programme for convicted child sex offenders: A preliminary report

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Psychiatric, demographic and personality characteristics of elderly sex offenders

Elderly sex offenders against children: A descriptive study of child sex abusers over the age of 65

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