Dangerous Sex Offenders: Classifying, Predicting, and Evaluating Outcomes of Clinical Treatment in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1982-85

• NCJ Number: 115307
• Author(s): R Prentky; R Knight
• Date Published: 1988
• Length: 71 pages
• Grant Number(s): 82-IJ-CX-0058
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This analysis explains the variables, coding system, and research methodology used to gather a set of data focusing on the separate classification systems used for rapists and child molesters in a Massachusetts treatment center for sexually aggressive offenders.

Abstract

Rapists and child molesters were classified as two types of sex offenders and then clinically classified into different subtypes based on criteria for the two taxonomies that were tested. The study variables included the type of traffic offenses, types of criminal offenses, and types of sex offenses, case dispositions, parole information, discharges, and types of post-release offenses. The study sample included the 270 sex offenders that were released after varying lengths of treatment and were part of the 500 sex offenders who became treatment patients during 1982-85. (Author abstract modified)