Conducted grounded theory study to explore incest offender perceptions of treatment to generate explanatory theory of sexual abuse treatment process. Findings from theoretical sampling of 20 adult male incest offenders revealed that offenders felt remodeling process occurred as they faced discovery of their abuse and went through treatment.…

Addresses problematic character of legislation that prescribes differential sanctioning for persons who commit sex crimes incidentally to other felonies and those who are presumably driven by psychosexual pathology. Contends that legislation calls for mental health professions, during evaluation which eventuates in recommendations to court…

This paper describes the experience of mitigation experts in first degree murder cases in the penalty phase of the trial. The first author, who is a sociologist, has worked in capital murder cases since 1988, as a mitigation expert in over 200 such cases. The second author assists in the mitigation process by analyzing mental health and…

Concept mapping (a combined qualitative/quantitative approach) was used to clarify the domain, composition, and underlying structure of 82 Canadian professionals' experiences of reward in their work with sex offenders. Seven thematic clusters were identified: Protection of Potential Victims, Socially Meaningful Curiosity, Enjoyment of Counselling,…

Following 11-98 weeks of inpatient residential treatment, 69 male adolescent sex offenders completed the 60-item, 12-factor Yalom Card Sort. The rank orders were compared to adult sex offenders and a psychiatric adult outpatient group. Relative to adult psychiatric outpatients, the adolescent sex offenders had rated Instillation of Hope three…

Investigates levels of moral reasoning among sex offenders court-ordered into a community-based treatment program. Comparison of the study sample to national normative data indicated that this sample of sex offenders was employing a level of moral reasoning two standard deviations lower than adults in general. Potential implications of the…

Administered Dissociative Experiences Scale, which distinguishes between subjects with dissociative disorder and those without, to 71 sex offenders and 14 men who were falsely accused of sexual abuse. Outpatient sex offenders scored in the range attributed to general population. Those falsely accused of child sexual abuse scored lower than…

Thirteen patients who had been treated with psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for sex offenses completed Hamilton Anxiety and Depression Scales, Beck Depression Inventory, and Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Found, among other things, reduction in anxiety and depression, greater ability to engage in psychotherapy, decrease in paraphilic…

Followed 46 male patients with paraphilic sexual disorders for 5 or more years in Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Unit. All patients received equivalent amounts of group psychotherapy. Of these, 17 relapsed. Rate of relapse among subjects receiving treatment with medroxy-progestorone acetate was 15 percent whereas rate of relapse among subjects not…

Explores concept of insight and preconditions for the development of insight for clinicians working with incestuous fathers. Details framework which promotes insight in incest fathers developed for use in Baltimore County Sexual Abuse Treatment Program, and offers suggestions for applying framework in offender treatment. (Author/NB)

Administered Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Psychological Inventory (CPI) to convicted child molesters at incarceration and release from prison. Pre/postincarceration scores revealed significant decreases on 5 MMPI scales and significant increases on 11 CPI scales. Respondents were reporting themselves as more…

Attitudes of members of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) towards treatment, release, and recidivism of sexual predators are assessed through an anonymous questionnaire. Fifty-two percent (540 members) responded. A large majority report little hope for cure (63%) and fear of recidivism after treatment (88%). No differences…

Presents Standards of Care, recommended as minimal criteria for professionals in the field, which were unanimously endorsed at the Third International Congress on the Treatment of Sex Offenders (Further revisions to these standards are anticipated). Discusses professional competence, antecedents to sex offender treatment, and principles of the…

Presents psychoanalytic view based on author's 21 years of experience as an expert witness for approximately 750 individuals who committed sex crimes, and on author's clinical psychiatric experience in treating 170 sex offenders released from prison. Describes treatment program theoretically based on these experiences. (Author/NB)

Examined Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) profiles of incarcerated pedophiles in state prisons (n=60), federal prisons (n=24), and military confinement facilities (n=25), each offering different educational and social composition. Multivariate statistics revealed that three groups' profiles were significantly different,…