Research evidence demonstrates that sex offender treatment programmes (SOTPs) can
reduce the number of sex offenders who are reconvicted. However, there has been much …

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 …

Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with
structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of …

This is a detailed ethnographic study of a therapeutic prison unit in Canada for the treatment
of sexual offenders. Utilizing extensive interviews and participant-observation over an …

This meta-synthesis explores individuals' experiences of engaging in psychotherapeutic
interventions for sexual offending. The findings of ten qualitative studies were integrated and …

Cultural Factors in Offender Treatment: Current Approaches in New Zealand Page 1
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 113 ( 2014 ) 213 – 223 1877-0428 © 2013 The …

Understanding how sexual offenders experience prison and its environment is important
because such experiences can impact on rehabilitation outcomes. The purpose of this …

Domestic and family violence (DFV) is an enduring social and public health issue of
endemic proportions and global scale, with multiple and lasting consequences for those …

The first intensive rehabilitation unit for high-risk prisoners in New Zealandopened in 1998
and targeted repetitively violent offenders: The Rimutaka ViolencePrevention Unit. 1 Three …

This essay discusses various treatments for sexual offenders and their success in reducing
reoffending. Overall, research reveals a positive treatment effect that indicates up to 25 per …