Situational Prevention and Child Sex Offenders with an Intellectual Disability (From Situational Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, P 197-221, 2006, Richard Wortley and Stephen Smallbone, eds. -- See NCJ-215297)

• NCJ Number: 215304
• Author(s): Frank Lambrick; William Glaser
• Date Published: 2006
• Length: 25 pages
• Sale Source: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
• Publication Format: Book Chapter
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter describes the method for treating child molesters with an intellectual disability (ID sex offenders) used at the Statewide Forensic Service (SFS) in Fairfield, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

The chapter first examines some characteristics of ID sex offenders and their environment and then discusses some specific assessment and treatment approaches that might prevent reoffending in this group. It then examines these approaches in the wider context of current theories that apply public-health principles and concepts drawn from preventive criminology, particularly the models of opportunity reduction (Clarke and Homel, 1997) and situational precipitants (Wortley, 1998). The chapter concludes with a description of the lessons that ID sex offenders can teach those who are designing programs to prevent sex offending generally. The application of these concepts in treating ID sex offenders at SFS involves modified cognitive-behavioral, skills-based, and whole-of-life programs. It also emphasizes the environmental management of such groups. This includes training offenders' caregivers and significant others in the observation of his behaviors in the community and in redirecting his behavior in positive directions. 33 references