Predictors of Sex Offender Treatment Completion

While most research on sex offenders addresses recidivism of treatment completers, there has been little attention in the literature devoted to those who do not complete treatment. Records of 126 incarcerated offenders who participated in a prison-based sex offender treatment program were reviewed....

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Published inJournal of child sexual abuse Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 73 - 88
Main Authors Moore, Donna L., Bergman, Barbra A., Knox, Pamela L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.1999
Subjects
Adults
Antisocial Behavior
Child Abuse
child molester
Child Molesters
Completion
Correctional Education
Counseling
Demography
Individual Differences
Males
Outcomes of Treatment
Predictors
Prisons
program completion
Rape
Sex Offender Treatment
Sex Offenders
Sexual Abuse
Tennessee
Termination of Treatment
Treatment
Treatment Programs
USA
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Summary:While most research on sex offenders addresses recidivism of treatment completers, there has been little attention in the literature devoted to those who do not complete treatment. Records of 126 incarcerated offenders who participated in a prison-based sex offender treatment program were reviewed. Treatment completers (N = 63) were compared to offenders who did not complete treatment (N = 63) using demographic variables, criminal variables, psychiatric variables and sex offense variables. Discriminant function analysis revealed that offenders who completed treatment were more often diagnosed with a substance abuse disorder, had a history of nonviolent offenses, and were less often diagnosed as having antisocial personality disorder. Descriptive statistics of treatment completers and dropouts are included.
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ISSN:1053-8712
1547-0679
DOI:10.1300/J070v07n03_05