Challenges Of Managing Sex Offenders In The Community

They are many challenges faced when managing sex offenders in the community. Policy makers have to worry about the offender’s risk and needs as well as the public safety and public perception. However, by measuring the individual risk factors and matching it with supervision that is best suitable for them and treatment strategies can help reduce an offender risk from reoffending.
In Nathan’s situation, he is a 39-year-old Caucasian male, is under intensive supervision since he is a pedophile. He was involved with two previous relationships in which one of the women was his wife. However, he is depressed because of the loss of the relationship from the victim Mark that he sexually assaulted. When he was arrested, he was found with adult porn.

From his case, since he genuinely does not want to physically harm the kids and his prognosis does seems great, as his case manager I determined that his risk assessment does not seems great, but there can be a chance where he commits these offenses again or new offenses. Helping him identify what risk factors he has will also helps him to understand what factors influence his behavior. Therefore, they are quite few needs that must be met and must be tailored to address the offender behavior. Sharing information regarding supervision and monitoring of sex offenders can help the criminal justice system to monitor and track the offenders. Also requiring polygraph exams to be done randomly so that if there were any information that was gained from examination would be forwarded

Having this supervision where he will be constantly monitor by having one to one monitoring by a staff member and which will require him to work can benefit him by hopefully changing his habits. Also community supervision officer will be effective since they will be able to have routine conversations with the therapists and bring to the courts attention if they are not complying with the terms of supervision. Having a supervise officer monitoring the offender behavior and how he is progressing by maintain regular contacts with them will be very