The increasing recognition of the large number of people victimized by sexual assault has
focused considerable attention on methods for deterring its perpetrators. In particular, law …

Previous reviews have taken either a severe methodological stance and concluded that
treatments have not been demonstrated to be effective with sex offenders, or they have …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Preliminary results from a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral
treatment with sex offenders are presented. The study's research design includes three …

OBJECTIVE: Recent legislation in several states providing for civil commitment and
preventive detention of sexually violent persons has stirred legal, clinical, and public policy …

This article provides a summary of current assessment and treatment approaches in North
America. With the advent of cognitive behavioral therapy in the early 1970s, programs for …

The conflict between knowing and not knowing, speech and silence, remembering and
forgetting, is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. This conflict is manifest in the …

Purpose. The rate of sexual reconviction for sexual offenders is known to be low. Sexual
reconviction, however, is currently the most commonly used outcome measure in sex …

Child sexual abuse is a serious, pervasive problem with clinical, social, moral, and legal
implications. Between 100 000 and 500 000 children in the United States are thought to be …

The frequency and impact of sexual offenses have led to the recent enactment of sexual
“predator” laws. Such laws are intended to reduce sexual violence through treatment and …