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The Containment
Approach to Managing Sexual Offenders in the Community: A Practitioner’s Guide by Charles
F. Edson, Robert G. Lundell and David R. Robinson © 2007 |
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Practitioner’s
Guide to Sex Offender Management |
To purchase copies of this Guide
please contact: Just Service 541-884-3398 This Manual is intended for
professionals and qualified practitioners in programs which supervise and
treat sexual offenders. All Rights
Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the express
permission of the authors. Those who purchase this Guide may
digitally copy the forms from the CD ROM provided with this publication and
edit, reproduce, and employ them to
manage offenders within the scope of their practices. A share of profits
from the sale of this Guide will be donated to programs serving victims of
sexual offenses.
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Foreword
This Guide advocates the Containment Approach applied to
convicted sexual offenders who have been sentenced to the program described
herein. The authors of this manual
represent the fields responsible for managing sexual offenders utilizing the
Containment Approach. These fields
include community corrections (probation and parole), psychotherapy and
polygraphy. Mr. Edson represents community corrections, Mr. Lundell is a
polygraph examiner, and Mr. Robinson is a psychotherapist. Each author has more than 25 years of
experience utilizing the Containment Approach as systemic sexual offender
management model. It is our intention that this manual will fill a public
service need by presenting operational tools for practitioners
(probation/parole officers, therapists and polygraph examiners) to utilize in
their daily work with a community-based sexual offender population. Further, we hope that this manual will assist individuals,
agencies, communities and states interested in the application of this
paradigm. This undertaking will require support from the public, legislators,
courts, prosecutors, police, community corrections, therapists and polygraph
examiners; most especially it will require commitment from all professionals
working together to implement this effective management model. For the three fields we discuss here (probation/parole
officers, polygraph examiners and therapists), we intend to promote
understanding and cooperation. This
manual is not a complete resource; individual professionals practicing these
disciplines will need to become informed on subject areas we have otherwise
omitted. Our aspiration is that this
Guide provides sufficient knowledge in a manner that criminal justice
professionals and interested lay persons may successfully implement the
Containment Approach in their communities.
We do not discuss pre-adjudicated cases; in fact, we advocate
not using the Containment Approach with this population. Although this model has been applied
successfully with females and juveniles, we do not specifically review those
practices within this Guide. Our discussions address male offenders who have
molested prepubescent children and pubescent children, sexually assaulted
adult females, public indecency offenders, purveyors of child pornography,
and other sexual paraphilics who have been sentenced to enter and complete
sex offender therapy. Also, we do not include how community corrections agencies
might design requests for proposals and manage contracts for sex offender
therapists and polygraph examiners.
Lastly, the Containment Approach paradigm is not designed to be a “one
size fits all” application. Therefore, professionals utilizing information in
this Guide will need to modify particular details and aspects of our
recommendations to address unique community and individual clients’ needs. We advocate this use of the Containment Approach system to
promote public safety, especially to prevent further sexual offenses. For those who share our commitment to
sexual offense reduction we include the following content areas in this
manual: · History, theory and research as
background and evidence of the efficacy of this systemic model. · Managing polygraph examinations and
forthcoming disclosure information when utilizing a polygraph as a procedural
management tool. · Collaboration and case management in the
context of Relapse Prevention using the Containment Approach. The Guide, besides this introduction,
is organized in four separate sections as follows (or skip forward to Table of Contents): I.
Theory, the Model, Strategy and
Research. Chapter 1 provides the historical,
philosophical and theoretical contexts from the fields of corrections,
therapy and polygraph. Chapter 2 describes the Containment Model. Chapter 3
presents the case management procedures used to implement Relapse Prevention
strategies. Chapter 4 presents research supporting the models’
“Evidence-Based” utility. II.
Application and Method.
This is the substantive or “hands on” portion of the Guide. This section begins with the legal
foundations of the approach as it is used in III.
Collaboration,
Conclusions & Suggestions for Further Research. Chapter
1 begins with comments concerning Community Collaboration. Information in this chapter is intended to
assist communities, criminal justice agencies and other organizations in
their interactions with sexual offenders, as well as providing information to
enhance cooperation (collaboration) when administering this model. Some of our observations apply to the
larger community and problems that often arise there. Chapter 2 lists our
conclusions. In addition, we offer suggestions for further research to
increase understanding and hopefully improve program efficacy to reduce
recidivism. IV.
Glossary, Index, References and
Resources. Chapter 1 defines a number of terms
specific to and sex offender management and criminal justice. Words in boldface within the narrative are defined in the glossary. The Glossary also serves as an Index. Chapter 2 offers References for source
material cited in the Guide following American Psychological Association
publication format. Following that,
this Chapter includes a fairly extensive list of sources for further reading
and research with website addresses for relevant agencies and
organizations. Note that we have included a number of Program Forms available on a CD ROM disk with this Manual. These are listed as Chapter 3 of this
section. Those who purchase the Guide
are welcome to alter and print these forms to use with their programs. We ask that providers and agencies not
distribute these CDs and forms freely; rather we ask that those who use these
forms to first purchase this Guide. Chapter 4 includes biographical notes outlining the authors’
credentials and professional experiences along with contact information in
the event agencies or communities desire training or consultation in aspects
of the Containment Approach. Sections/Chapters Page Introduction
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