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Belinda Winder provides evidence-based best practice advice for reducing reoffending and increasing community reintegration of sex offenders.
The distinct challenges faced by children with a parent in prison for sexual offences.
‘It’s ok if you were in for robbery or murder, but sex offending, that’s a no no’: a qualitative analysis of the experiences of 12 men with sexual convictions seeking employment.
A summary of the new Council of Europe recommendations on the assessment, treatment and reintegration of people accused or convicted of a sexual offence.
Comparing two predictors of sexual recidivism: the Risk Matrix 2000 and the OASys Sexual Reoffending Predictor
Prison and Probation Inspectors say management of sex offenders must improve
700,000 people were sexually assaulted last year. Just 6,877 people were convicted of a sexual offence.
Prison Reform Trust report on planning services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism who sexually offend.
The MoJ has revealed that the core prison Sex Offender Treatment Programme does not work. So, what happens now to sex offenders and their victims?
Perhaps their most important conclusion is the contention that probation practice should focus more on helping sex offenders move forward, away from a life of crime rather than continuously re-examining past offences.
Like a young child writing to Santa, I don’t quite know where to begin with my wish list of all the things I’d like to know from NOMS before the Transforming Rehabilitation procurement process starts in earnest. Perhaps the obvious first request is to know when the PQQ process is going to start and end? And will it be the rumoured “light touch” process to ensure that most new entrants, including probation mutuals, will have a good chance of getting through? Or will it be the (also rumoured)…
