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Future Directions in the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

Tony Ward  and
Stephen M. Hudson
Stephen M. Hudson
Affiliation:
University of Canterbury
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Sexual offences against women and children constitute a serious and distressingly prevalent social problem. The psychological and emotional costs to victims and their families, the high reoffending rates of some types of offenders, and the financial costs of incarceration all highlight the urgent need for effective research and treatment of this problem behaviour. In the past two decades, a number of innovations have led to improved treatment of these difficult men. In addition, theories and models have been developed with the aim of furthering our understanding of sex offenders. In this paper we identify a number of issues within the broad areas of assessment and treatment that we believe to be problematic, and make some suggestions about ways of resolving these problems in the future.

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Behaviour Change , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 215 - 225
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Copyright © The Authors 1997

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