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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 31, No. 1, 61-69 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X8703100108

Treating the Dangerous Sexual Offender: A Clinical/Legal Dilemma

Laurence French

New Hampshire Division of, Mental Health & Development Services, RR#7, Box 395-9, New Hampshire Drive, Concord, New Hampshire 03301, U.S.A.

John Vollmann, Jr.

Southeast Florida, Institute on Criminal Justice, Miami, Florida; Florida Criminal Justice, Educators & Training Association

The DSO (Dangerous Sexual Offender) offender category involves some of our society's most repulsive deviant acts-rapists/murderers, child molesters, and serial rapists.... consequently, the combination of the severity of these acts coupled with a lack of any clear and effective clinical treatment poses a clinical/legal dilemma. The DSO poses a clinical/custodial enigma in that often these individuals respond well to the custodial environment and that this adaptation is often confused with effective treatment results. As a result of these false positives it is difficult to predict the potential of these clients once they are released back into the general public. This article examines this phenomenon from both the legal and clinicalperspectives.


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