Training Name: Implementing Effective, Victim-Centered Practices and Policies Regarding Sexual Offending
Learning Objectives
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
1) Explain the reasons why certain sexual offender management practices and policies have become popular with community members and lawmakers.
2) Describe the ways in which current sex offender management practices may not be victim centered or may not support victim interests.
3) Analyze the unintended, and intended, impacts of sexual offender management and treatment practices that may undermine sexual offender rehabilitation.
4) Consider sexual offender management policy and practice with regard to the interests of offender rehabilitation, victim centeredness, and community safety.
5) Explain the benefits and costs of current sexual offender management policy and practice from the perspectives of the community and policymakers, those who offend, and those who are victimized.
6) Describe controversial harm prevention-based sexual offender management policies and practices and identify recommendations for practice and policy change.