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...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 98 - 103
Autor principal: Henson T
Formato: case study Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2009
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          Correctional Facilities
          Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
          Sex Offenders
          Treatment Outcomes
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          Discrimination
          Recidivism
          Risk Assessment Methods
          Teaching Methods
          Time Factors
      ab: 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 overview of how programmes have developed in prisons and describes differences between the Sex Offender Treatment Programme and the Adapted Programme. It highlights how offenders with learning disabilities are severely disadvantaged by the programmes and how current sentencing practice will discriminate against this group in terms of not being able to demonstrate reduction of risk, resulting in offenders with learning disability remaining in prison for ever extending periods.
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