Defines "sex offender," clinical definitions of paraphilia and pedophilia, sex offender characteristics, and sex offender treatment. It provides information on state sex offender registration and community notification laws.
An evaluation of home confinement as an alternative to imprisonment in the federal system. The authors examined selection procedures and criteria, types of monitoring, the role of probation officers, and other elements of home confinement programs.
The findings of a study of supervision outcomes for a sample of 1,000 offenders who entered the aftercare program for drug-dependent federal offenders from July 1, 1982, to June 30, 1983. The report includes sixty-three tables of data from the study.
The preliminary report of the Center's multiphase effort to document the effects of the Probation Division's aftercare program for drug-dependent federal offenders. The author reviews the operation of the program in a sample of ten probation districts.
An evaluation of the comparative validity of four risk prediction scales used for classifying federal probation caseloads. The authors found the U.S.D.C. 75 Scale to have the best balance of validity and predictive power, and they recommend that it be used by all U.S. probation officers.
Edward D. Re, Alvin Bronstein, Wilfred Feinberg, Paul A. Freund, Joseph Tyree Sneed III, Alexander M. Capron, Jane Frank-Harman, Gerald Gunther, Alasdair MacIntyre, Norman Redlich, Jerome J. Shestack, Abraham D. Sofaer, June Louin Tapp
January 1, 1981
The committee examined the ethical and legal problems posed by experimentation with innovative programs and procedures in the justice system.