Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Geer, T. M.
Right arrow Articles by Krauss, D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Geer, T. M.
Right arrow Articles by Krauss, D.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Predictors of Treatment Completion in a Correctional Sex Offender Treatment Program

Tracey M. Geer

Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

Judith V. Becker

Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

Steven R. Gray

Psychological and Consulting Services, Mesa, AZ 85210, USA

Daniel Krauss

Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA

The purpose of this study was to examine what factors increase the likelihood that a sex offender will complete a correctional sex offender treatment program. Participants were 179 incarcerated adult male sex offenders who volunteered to participate in a sex offender treatment program. The two groups evaluated were treatment completers and noncompleters. By examining archival records the following data were collected: scores on the Multiphasic Sex Inventory II (MSI II), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Abel and Becker Adult Sexual Interest Card Sort, and plethysmograph. Demographic information was obtained from presentence investigation reports. Results from a logistic regression indicate that more years of education, not having a history of sexual victimization, and lower levels of minimizing or excusing sexual crimes predict treatment completion (p < .05). These results suggest that it is possible to predict which incarcerated sex offenders are likely to complete a prison-based sex offender treatment program.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 45, No. 3, 302-313 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X01453003
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Criminal Justice and BehaviorHome page
D. M. Daggett, S. D. Camp, O. Kwon, S. P. Rosenmerkel, and J. Klein-Saffran
Faith-Based Correctional Programming in Federal Prisons: Factors Affecting Program Completion
Criminal Justice and Behavior, July 1, 2008; 35(7): 848 - 862.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Criminal Justice and BehaviorHome page
K. L. Nunes and F. Cortoni
Dropout From Sex-Offender Treatment and Dimensions of Risk of Sexual Recidivism
Criminal Justice and Behavior, January 1, 2008; 35(1): 24 - 33.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Sex AbuseHome page
B. Pelissier
Treatment Retention in a Prison-based Residential Sex Offender Treatment Program
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, December 1, 2007; 19(4): 333 - 346.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Int J Offender Ther Comp CriminolHome page
L. J. Stalans and M. Seng
Identifying Subgroups at High Risk of Dropping Out of Domestic Batterer Treatment: The Buffering Effects of a High School Education
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol, April 1, 2007; 51(2): 151 - 169.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Int J Offender Ther Comp CriminolHome page
R. Langevin
Acceptance and completion of treatment among sex offenders.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol, August 1, 2006; 50(4): 402 - 417.
[Abstract] [PDF]