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Refusers, Dropouts, and Completers: Measuring Sex Offender Treatment Efficacy

James A. Seager

Correctional Service Canada, Guelph, Ontario N1H 8J1, Canada

Debra Jellicoe

Gurmeet K. Dhaliwal

Institutional Psychologist, Kingston Penitentiary, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 4V7, Canada

A sex offender program delivered in a medium-security prison followed 109 treatment completers and 37 noncompleters for 2 years after release. Noncompleters, those who refused treatment or dropped out, had 6 times the rate of sexual and violent reoffending relative to completers. Among those who completed the program, however, positive evaluations of treatment change, such as quality of disclosure and enhanced victim empathy, found in posttreatment assessments did not correlate with recidivism. Furthermore, completers did not differ in their rates of recidivism from pretreatment rates predicted by the Static 99, an actuarial measure of anticipated sexual and violent recidivism. We conclude that the programdid not influence propensities for sexual and violent recidivism but rather served as a prolonged screening instrument for sex offenders whose failure to comply with treatment attendance predicted higher rates of recidivism.

Key Words: recidivism • sex offender • treatment • violence

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 48, No. 5, 600-612 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X04263885
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