Group Work With Sexual Offenders (An Alternative Approach)

Abstract

IN THE March issue of Probation Journal, an article by Roger Shaw described work in Southend with men convicted of serious sexual offences.He described the response of the public to offences of this kind, the treatment such men receive in prison, and the damaging effects on them and their relatives. Although less serious. sexual offences such as indecent exposure and non-violent child molesting are not so likely to result in long prison sentences or to cause such major upheaval in offenders' lives, they nevert…