Progressing Work with Sex Offenders
| Date | 01 December 1996 |
| Published date | 01 December 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059604300408 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Strategy and Policy
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Since 1991, four times as many
RESEA RCH
Services have adopted specific policy
statements regarding the supervision of
sexual offenders, amounting to 46 of the
56 Probation Areas (82%).
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The most common strategic partners
Progressing of Probation Services are Social
Services, health authorities (notably
forensic services), NSPCC and the
Work
police. For most Services, work with sex
offenders is strategically rooted in child
protection and the prevention of further
harm to victims.
with Sex
Programme Content and Delivery
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The Service has created over one
hundred specialist posts for working with
Offenders
sex offenders; 72 posts exist at probation
officer grade.
Eddie Procter, Senior Researcher with
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The number of sex offender
Oxford and Buckinghamshire Probation
programmes had increased from 63 in
Service, and Frances Flaxington, ACPO
1991 to 109 in July 1995.
Greater Manchester, report on a recent
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Each year almost two thousand sex
ACOP survey of national practice.
offenders participate in probation-run
In July and August 1995, ACOP
programmes.
undertook a national survey of all
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Offence focused, cognitive-
Probation Services in England, Wales and
behavioural approaches are more-or-less
Northern Ireland, to evaluate the progress
uniform across Services with the
made by Services in work with
principal goals being to increase victim
perpetrators of sexual crime. This survey
empathy, reduce sexual arousal and
follows similar studies by Warwick’ in
denial.
1991 and Barker and Morgan2 in 1993.
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Groupwork is a key method
The main findings are summarised
complimented by co-working, one-to-one
below.
supervision, mental health referrals and
Caseloads
family work.
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The Probation Service is responsible
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Programmes offer an average of 81
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for supervising over seven thousand
hours intervention, taking place weekly
offenders whose main index offence is an
or fortnightly, or in some cases a shorter
indictable sexual offence....
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