Sex Offender Treatment Intervention and Progress Scale (SOTIPS)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Tanya Renn ◽  
Christopher Veeh ◽  
Melissa D. Grady ◽  
David Edwards ◽  
Carrie Pettus-Davis ◽  
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Sexual Abuse ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. McGrath ◽  
Michael P. Lasher ◽  
Georgia F. Cumming

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Lacombe

How does the Parole Board decide a sex offender is rehabilitated and can be released into the community? This case study of a parole hearing reveals the significance the Parole Board gives to a sex offender’s management of his arousal as a clear sign of his rehabilitation. To explain the Board’s preoccupation with a sex offender’s sexual fantasies and arousal, I draw on a prison ethnography of a sex offender treatment program. Rehabilitation as risk management relies on the development of a crime cycle and relapse prevention plan designed to grasp the connection between fantasies, arousal and offending. I argue the parole hearing and treatment program exist in a symbiotic relationship that fabricates the sex offender into a species larger than life, one at risk of offending all the time. Key words: rehabilitation, sex offenders, parole, sexual fantasies, ethnography, prison.


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