Essay On Sex Offender

A Sex Offender is a person who commits a crime involving a sexual act.The first sexual psychopath laws were passed in the 1930s.These statutes were also referred to as sexually dangerous persons acts, and mentally disordered sex offenders acts. These laws were popular but they were also criticized. There were doubts of the capability of rehabilitating sexual psychopaths.

There are many different types of sex offender the first one is a Repressed offender and with this type of molester has low self-esteem and poor coping strategies. He will turn to children when stressed. Repressed molesters often abuse their own children or coerce another child into sexual activity. The second sex offender is a Morally indiscriminate offender and with this type of molester is categorized as without conscience and engages in other types of abuse, as well as sexual abuse. He will target the weak and vulnerable and is indiscriminate in victim choice, abusing strangers and acquaintances.

The third sex offender is a Sexually indiscriminate offender and this behavior of this type of molester is most similar to a sex addiction. Variety of sexual activity appears to be the goal. The final sex offender is an Inadequate offender which the inadequate molester is the sex offender who least resembles social and behavioral norms. He is characterized as a social misfit, an isolate, who appears unusual or eccentric. He may be mentally ill and prefers non-threatening sexual partners.

There are many various types of assessments and treatments for sexual offenders some of them are the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders has developed substantially over the last 40 years.Some early treatment models were medical or psychoanalytic and later treatments focus...

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...rily women and children. The last level of community notification is also that offenders are seen as posing the highest risk. The highest degree of notification is implemented to where the general public is notified.

The main targeted areas for treatment are that many sex offenders lack empathy, as this is a critical part of most treatment programs. One goal of sex offender treatment programs to make offenders understand the consequences of sexual abuse for their victims. Empathy is the capacity to perceive another’s perspective, to recognize affective arousal within oneself and to base compassionate behavioral responses on the motivation inducted by these percepts. The reason why an offender may lack empathy may result from the lack of intimate relationships or the sexual offenders inability to attribute appropriate appropriate thoughts and feelings towards others.