Sexual Offending Against Children: Assessment and Treatment of Male Abusers

278 Pages·1994·0.99 MB·English

by  Tony Morrison

Sexual offending against children:
assessment and treatment of male
abusers
Male sexual offending against children is a serious and widespread problem
in Britain and the USA. Increasing awareness of this disturbing fact has led
to great public and professional interest in how to deal with sex offenders.
Sexual Offending Against Children: Assessment and Treatment of Male
Abusers is the first book written specifically by UK professionals about
practice, and it brings together people experienced in working with sex
offenders and their families in a range of community based and institutional
settings.
The editors and contributors reflect the development, achievement and
challenges of practice in the UK, stressing the multi-disciplinary context in
which such practice needs to be undertaken. They describe the assessment,
treatment and management of sexual offenders who assault children, and
consider the impact of such work on individual practitioners and implications
for managers and their agencies. The book covers both the theoretical and
practical issues raised by working with those who sexually assault children,
and demonstrates clearly the application of research and theory in practice.
With its practical approach, linked to a clear and firm theoretical base,
Sexual Offending Against Children: Assessment and Treatment of Male
Abusers will be invaluable to students, teachers and professionals in Social
Work, Social Policy and Psychology, as well as to those in the Police and
Prison Services who work with child sexual offenders.
Tony Morrison is an independent social work consultant and trainer, and
founder Chair of NOTA, the National Association for the Development of
Work with Sex Offenders; Marcus Erooga is Manager of the NSPCC Child
Protection Team in Oldham, which has a specialist focus addressing sexually
aggressive behaviour; and Richard C.Beckett is a consultant forensic and
clinical psychologist and Head of Oxford Forensic Psychology Service.

Sexual offending against
children
Assessment and treatment of
male abusers
Edited by Tony Morrison, Marcus Erooga
and Richard C.Beckett
Foreword by Valerie Howarth
London and New York
First published 1994
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

© 1994 Tony Morrison, Marcus Erooga and Richard C.Beckett, selection and
editorial manner; individual chapters, the contributors
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter
invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.

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To
Jacquie, Christopher, James and Anna
Caroline
Lucy and Jude

Contents
List of illustrations ix
List of contributors x
Foreword, Valerie Howarth, Director of ChildLine xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction xvii
Glossary xx
1 Adult sex offenders: who are they? Why and how do they
do it? 1
Dawn Fisher
2 Context, constraints and considerations for practice 25
Tony Morrison
3 Assessment of sex offenders 55
Richard Beckett
4 Cognitive-behavioural treatment of sex offenders 80
Richard Beckett
5 Groupwork with men who sexually abuse children 102
Paul Clark and Marcus Erooga
6 The management of sex offenders in institutions 129
David Briggs
7 Adolescent sexual abusers: research, assessment and
treatment 146
Dave O’Callaghan and Bobbie Print
8 Parent, partner, protector: conflicting role demands for
mothers of sexually abused children 178
Gerrilyn Smith
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9 Where the professional meets the personal
Marcus Erooga 203
Conclusion 221
Appendix: Appeal Court guidelines on sentencing in cases of
incest 225
Bibliography 227
Index 240
Illustrations
FIGURES
1.1 Wolf’s cycle of offending 19
1.2 Finkelhor’s four preconditions of sex abuse 21
2.1 Organisational building blocks 32
2.2 Prochaska and Di C lemente’s comprehensive model of
change 50
6.1 The decision to change—an example of a decision matrix 140
7.1 Model of the G-MAP programme 158
8.1 The offender-organised system: keeping it child-centred 180
8.2 Finkelhor’s four preconditions, adapted by Gerrilyn Smith 181
9.1 Factors contributing to dysfunctional stress among helpers 207
9.2 Preparation building blocks 213
TABLES
1.1 Completed paraphilic acts and victims/partners by diagnosis 8
1.2 Percentage of paraphiliacs with multiple paraphilias 10
1.3 Recidivism data for outpatient programmes 14
4.1 Treatment objectives 86
6.1 The Special Hospital population, 1972–87 130
8.1 Non-abusing parent’s capacity to protect 184–5
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