Treatment outcome study: Seventeen years after sexual offender treatment

Dwyer, S. Margretta

doi:10.1007/bf02674865

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“…Allam (1999) reported that the untreated offenders recidivated at a rate of approximately three times that of the men who engaged in the community sex offender groupwork programme. Other studies have demonstrated that CBT for sex offenders can be effective in reducing recidivism (Dwyer, 1997;Hedderman & Sugg, 1996;Marques, Day, Nelson, & West, 1994;. The majority of follow up studies examined relatively short periods of recidivism risk (generally under five years).…”

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confidence: 97%

Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

Wilcox¹

2004

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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The development of comprehensive treatment services for intellectually disabled sex offenders has been slow in comparison with mainstream sex offender treatment services, which have now achieved Home Office accreditation within the National Probation Service. The author discusses some of the reasons for this failure to keep pace, focusing on the relative absence of an expertise spanning the fields of sex offender work and intellectual disabilities. Attention is focused on the particular challenges of targeting treatment, measuring change and evaluating programmes delivered to these individuals. The author reports on steps that have been taken toward overcoming these obstacles and makes recommendations about further work to be done.

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Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

Wilcox¹

2004

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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“…Some reports are fairly pessimistic (Furby, Weinrott, & Blackshaw, 1989), although many of these clinical programs did not incorporate behavioral techniques into their treatment arsenal. The largest reports (Dwyer, 1997;Maletzky & Steinhauser, 2002) indicate fair treatment outcomes, but among all groups treated, rapists had comparatively the worst outcomes-25% to 30% reoffended within a 5-year period (Maletzky & Steinhauser, 2002).…”

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“…A considerable body of evidence over the past two decades has demonstrated efficacy of behavioral and cognitive techniques in diminishing recidivism (Alexander, 1999;Dwyer, 1997;Looman, Abracen, & Nicholiachuk, 2000) and reducing deviant sexual arousal (Looman & Marshall, 2001;Maletzky & Steinhauser, 2002) in sexual offenders. Efforts to continually refine techniques (McConagy, 1999) and to collect and combine treatment outcome data from a variety of institutions and clinics across the country (Marshall, Fernandez, Hudson, & Ward, 1998) have been presented recently in the literature.…”

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“…Unfortunately, treatment outcome data for rapists are confusing and contradictory. Some studies have reported fair outcomes (Dwyer, 1997;Maletzky & Steinhauser, 2002), but these often include mixed groups and even groupings of other sexual offenders, such as pedophiles with rapists. Some reports are fairly pessimistic (Furby, Weinrott, & Blackshaw, 1989), although many of these clinical programs did not incorporate behavioral techniques into their treatment arsenal.…”

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A Serial Rapist Treated With Behavioral and Cognitive Techniques and Followed for 12 Years

Maletzky

2003

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This article describes a serial rapist treated in a sexual abuse clinic, then followed for 12 years. Following a discussion of the patient's offending and personal history, an account is presented of the assessment and treatment techniques employed with such dangerous offenders. Because community safety is an issue in such treatment, a variety of methods were utilized to ensure safety both during and after treatment. While this patient appeared to benefit from treatment and apparently remained offense-free during followup, it cannot be assumed that all such cases can be treated with such facility. Indeed, while pedophiles and exhibitionists have been successfully treated using similar techniques, the treatment of rapists remains controversial and results are not as sanguine as this case would indicate. Treatment outcome data for all sexual offenders, and for rapists in particular, are presented throughout the discussion.

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“…Some of the outcome research on adult sex offenders, which include a comparison group, has not even specified whether or not the participants were treatment volunteers (Hanson, Steffy, & Gauthier, 1993;Konicek, 1996;Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, 2001;Schweitzer & Dwyer, 2003;Zgoba, Sager, & Witt, 2003). In other studies, staff selected individuals among volunteers and there was no comparison group of nonvolunteers (Berlin et al, 1991;Dwyer, 1997). One study included two types of comparison groups but did not conduct any multivariate analyses (Mander, Atrops, Barnes, & Munafo, 1996).…”

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Predicting Sex Offender Treatment Entry Among Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offense Crimes

2006

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This study examined what factors were predictive of who volunteers for sex offender treatment (self-selection) as well as who enters treatment after volunteering (administration selection). Research participants included 404 treatment volunteers and 387 nonvolunteers to treatment who were convicted of a sexual offense involving minors within the federal prison system. Maximum likelihood probit estimation procedures indicated that when compared with nonvolunteers, treatment volunteers were more likely to be recommended by a judge to receive treatment at the time of sentencing, had received prior treatment for sexually deviant behavior, reported higher levels of motivation to change their sexually deviant behavior, and had lower rates of a substance use disorder in the year prior to incarceration. Of those persons who initially volunteered, 62% were accepted and entered treatment, 16% were denied entry to treatment by program staff, and 22% refused treatment after being accepted to the waiting list. When compared with those who were accepted and entered treatment, motivation was the only predictor of being denied admission into treatment by program staff and for refusal of treatment once accepted. The findings emphasize the need to control for selection bias in treatment outcome studies and the importance of examining the role of motivation in treatment volunteerism and treatment entry for sexual offenders.

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Treatment outcome study: Seventeen years after sexual offender treatment

Cited by 14 publications

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Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

Treatment of intellectually disabled individuals who have committed sexual offences: A review of the literature

A Serial Rapist Treated With Behavioral and Cognitive Techniques and Followed for 12 Years

Predicting Sex Offender Treatment Entry Among Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offense Crimes

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