Managing Adult Sex Offenders:
A Containment Approach

You will be amazed by the amount of innovative and sometimes-controversial practices contained in this publication for managing adult sex offenders in community settings. Discover why the containment approach to managing sex offenders prioritizes accountability among the offender and criminal justice agency. Find out more about sex offender registration laws and why they are so vital. Examine the primary elements necessary to initiate an effective sex offender program.

This book is your information bank for evaluating your agency's current sex offender program, designing new strategies or looking at the difficult question of "what works."

Each chapter provides you with factual information supported by field research.

• Summary of the National Telephone Survey of Probation and Parole Supervisors
  
• Criminal Justice Policies and Sex Offender Denial
  
• Law Enforcement Registration and Community Notification
  
• Starting a Sex Offender Program: Reports from Three Communities
  
• Investigating and Prosecuting Sex Offenders
  
• Community Corrections in Oregon: Empowerment Philosophy and Sex Offender Supervision Network
  
• Monitoring with Surveillance Officers
  
• Evaluating Sex Offender Programs
  
• Treatment of Sex Offenders
  
• Plethysmography Assessment
  
• Using Polygraph
  
• A Residential Treatment Home for Developmentally Disabled Sex Offenders
  
• One Solution to Resource Limitations: Using Probation Officers as
  Psycho-educational Group Leaders
  
• Does Sex Offender Treatment Work? Why Answering This Question is so Difficult.

Published 1996, 338 pages

Non-Member Price $15.00 plus S & H
APPA Member Price $12.00 plus S & H
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