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Child Molesters
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[W]hen it comes to what freed child molesters should have a right to, going to church, if they want to, is at the top of that rather short list. Keeping them from church would be like keeping them from therapy because the therapist has other patients who aren’t comfortable with being under the same roof as a child molester. It’s letting your fear get in the way of someone else’s attempt at redemption. How is that Christian?
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This report summarizes comparisons between a treated group of child molesters and two control groups of offenders who were sentenced to the same institution, but who did not receive specific treatment for pedophilia. For the treatment group, extensive information was collected directly from the offenders as well as from institutional files. The information for the control groups came entirely from institutional records.
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Risk assessments with child molesters should consider the offenders' attitudes and social functioning along with their criminal histories. Offenders with low psychological deviance may have substantially lower recidivism rates than the rates predicted by actuarial risk instruments.
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State Rep. Shannon Erickson introduced a bill recently that would make child molesters ineligible for parole, while Sen. Catherine Ceips sponsored a bill that would nearly eliminate parole altogether. Read the story here.
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Never in history has the public donated so much money to aid in the legal cases of child molesters. It is time the Catholic Church reassess its rules, and the way they go about asking their followers for money.
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Methodological problems ... cloud the child molester treatment/recidivism literature, making it difficult to interpret. Most of the available studies report the recidivism rates for single groups of treated or untreated offenders. Without comparison groups that can provide a baseline for comparison, it is difficult to isolate the effects of treatment from the confounding effects of location (e.g., Europe versus U.S.A.), previously existing risk indicators, and follow-up methods.
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