| The treatment of sex offenders: evidence, ethics, and human rights. | |
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PMID: 20937793 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Public policy is necessarily a political process with the law and order issue high on the political agenda. Consequently, working with sex offenders is fraught with legal and ethical minefields, including the mandate that community protection automatically outweighs offender rights. In addressing community protection, contemporary sex offender treatment is based on management rather than rehabilitation. We argue that treatment-as-management violates offender rights because it is ineffective and unethical. The suggested alternative is to deliver treatment-as-rehabilitation underpinned by international human rights law and universal professional ethics. An effective and ethical community-offender balance is more likely when sex offenders are treated with respect and dignity that, as human beings, they have a right to claim. |
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Astrid Birgden; Heather Cucolo |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-10-11 |
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Title: Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment Volume: 23 ISSN: 1573-286X ISO Abbreviation: Sex Abuse Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-09-15 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9506704 Medline TA: Sex Abuse Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 295-313 Citation Subset: IM |
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1Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
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