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Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration pp 525–556Cite as

Women and Children as Victims of Sex Offenses: Crime Prevention by Treating the Offenders?

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In the context of crime, women and children are very often discussed as victims of sex crimes such as rape or sexual abuse. This chapter provides an overview of the number of sex crimes in comparison to other crimes, the problem of the dark figure, and discusses how valid these data are. As a measure of victim protection, one of the most important aspects of offender treatment is crime prevention. Sex crimes can have long-lasting negative effects. What can be done to reduce this damage? Does it help to treat the offender, and what are the effects of these treatment programs? Does offender treatment facilitate a reduction in the number of sex crimes or should sex offenders be incarcerated for longer periods, perhaps even for the rest of their lives? How can we predict a sex offender’s potential “dangerousness” after release in these cases?

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Notes

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    Statistical analyses based on miscellaneous sources, e.g., www.nationmaster.com.

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    Paraphilias are mental disorders including recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors that are targeted toward nonhuman objects, the suffering or humiliation of a person involved, or children respectively other non-consenting individuals (e.g., exhibitionism, pedophilia, voyeurism, sadism). The diagnosis requires personal distress about the person’s interest, another person’s psychological distress, injury, or death, or a desire for sexual behaviors involving unwilling persons or persons unable to give legal consent. It is important to note that not every unusual sexual behavior is a paraphilia.

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    http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2012/06/15/344424/Protests-halt.htm, accessed 1 July 2014.

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    However, the abovementioned evaluation biases have to be kept in mind, that is, that authors who are affiliated to treatment programs tend to yield more positive findings.

  5. 5.

    The SVR-20 is not a true actuarial tool since it allows for the assessment of three acute dynamic risk factors and does not use a final score to determine the risk-level.

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