NCJ Number
209459
Journal
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Dated: April 2005 Pages: 225-230
Date Published
April 2005
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article is a response to a critique of an original study, “Dosage of Treatment to Sexual Offenders: Are We Overprescribing?”
Abstract
The original study examined the number of sex offender treatment programs taken by sex offenders and what intensity level (low, moderate, or high) of sex offender programs were prescribed to sex offenders in the Ontario Region of Correctional Services of Canada (CSC). The authors of the original study reached the conclusion that offenders prescribed to low-intensity sex offender treatment in the Ontario Region of CSC may be receiving too many sex offender treatment programs. Marshall and Yates (2005) critiqued the original study and concluded that based on their re-analysis of the data, the opposite may in fact be the case: offenders may be receiving too few sex offender treatment programs under the low-intensity level. The current article critiques some of the assumptions made by Marshall and Yates (2005) and offers recidivism data for the offenders analyzed in the original study. After another re-analysis of the data and some clarifications regarding the sample and the analysis technique, the authors of the current article contend that their original conclusion regarding the over-prescription of sex offender treatment programs for the low-intensity level was indeed justified by the data. References