NCJ Number
182011
Journal
Canadian Journal of Criminology Volume: 42 Issue: 2 Dated: April 2000 Pages: 177-188
Date Published
April 2000
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This article describes a community-based sexual offender management protocol combining parole supervision and relapse prevention treatment.
Abstract
The article presents outcome data regarding the community-based maintenance of 107 sexual offenders released to the Central Ontario District (Toronto) over an 8-year period. Overall rates of general re-offending were 21.0 percent, violent re-offending 10.3 percent and sexual re-offending 3.7 percent. The mean time of follow-up was 3 years, 7 months. The article discusses these results in comparison to results at other treatment sites. Valid risk assessment, in combination with a well-defined supervision strategy (i.e., collaboration of community-based relapse prevention treatment and knowledgeable parole supervision) appears to be an effective method for managing sexual recidivism in the community. While the low sexual re-offending rate found in this study is encouraging, the study suffers from the lack of an appropriate control group. It was difficult to find sexual offenders who were not being offered community-based treatment intervention in a comparable environment. And there are ethical concerns associated with not offering offenders appropriate community treatment and supervision. Tables, notes, references