ISBN: 978-1-884444-85-2

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Current Practices and Emerging Trends in Sexual Abuser Management
The Safer Society 2009 North American Survey
by Robert J. McGrath, Georgia F. Cumming, Brenda L. Burchard, Stephen Zeoli & Lawrence Ellerby

Safer Society’s 2009 North American survey reports on the responses from more than 1,370 residential and community sexual abuser treatment programs for male and female adults, adolescents, and children. This report provides a wide-angle snapshot of the state of the field, and identifies trends in the assessment and treatment of sexual abusers. Both the current practices and trends are compared with what research and professional associations presently consider "best practice" in the field. Areas requiring additional research are identified and suggestions for program development and evaluation are included. As well as broadening the geographic scope to include Canada, this edition also probes public policy issues and includes the treatment theories Risk Needs and Responsivity, Self Regulation, and Good Lives. This report provides invaluable information for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. (2010)

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“If the Safer Society survey did not exist, people in our field would be longing for something like it. But it does exist and is superbly done. It is a unique tool to advocate for the issues and plicies that will benefit us all and will make our society safer.”
— Thomas Tobin, C.E.O., SHARPER FUTURE, and Public Policy Chair for the California Coalition on Sexual Offending