Correction to: Sex Offenders of East Asian Heritage Resemble Other Canadian Sex Offenders

Recidivism of Sex Offenders

The criminal justice system manages most convicted sex offenders with some combination of incarceration, community supervision, and specialized treatment (Knopp, Freeman-Longo, and Stevenson, 1992). While the likelihood and length of incarceration for sex offenders has increased in recent years, the majority are released at some point on probation or parole (either immediately following sentenc...

Juvenile sex offenders compared to non-sex offenders: a review of the literature 1995-2005.

An unresolved but clinically important issue in the literature on juvenile delinquency is to what extent juvenile sex offenders resemble non-sex offenders with respect to individual, familial, and environmental characteristics. The current article reviewed published studies (1995-2005) comparing sex offenders with non-sex offenders. The 17 articles meeting the inclusion criteria suggest that di...

Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the current state of sex offender treatment , with a focus on the question of the effectiveness of treatment. We begin by discussing some problems that arise in answering this question, followed by a brief discussion of the history of sex offender treatment, and a more in-depth discussion of studies that have looked at the effectiveness o...

Pharmacological treatment of sex offenders

Commentary: sex offenders and insanity.

Sex offenders with a psychotic illness present challenges in the determination of criminal responsibility, risk assessment, and psychiatric treatment. Novak et al. present data that raise concerns regarding how forensic psychiatrists could conclude sex offenders were not responsible for their offenses in the absence of clear evidence of psychotic symptoms at the time of assessment and/or offens...