Do sexual offenders with learning disabilities benefit from sex offender treatment programmes?
This article discusses some of the clinical and practical issues in relation to sex offender treatment in prisons and compares, through the experience of one offender who has been called Sam, how the experiences may differ between offenders with and without learning disabilities. It gives a brief ov...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 98 - 103 |
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| Formato: | case study Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2009
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