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In June 1991, the Home Secretary announced that Her Majesty’s Prison Service of England and Wales would introduce a national strategy for the treatment of imprisoned sexual offenders. Sexual offenders would be concentrated in a smaller number of prisons that would offer a unified group treatment program that would be designed in line with research about effective treatment for this type of offender, and the program would be centrally designed, monitored, evaluated, and refined (Grubin & Thornton, 1994; Thornton & Hogue, 1993). Since 1991, the Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) has been established in 25 penal establishments, ranging from the highest security to the lowest, and is situated in every part of the country, from Northumbria to Devon.
... The original model of relapse prevention was adapted and developed for addressing sexual offending behaviour by Pithers (e.g. Pithers et al., 1983) and Marques (e.g.), and since this time has been incorporated into many treatment approaches for sexual offenders (Marques, Day, Nelson, & Miner, 1989; Mann & Thornton, 2000). The goal in relapse prevention is for the sexual offender to develop self-management skills in order to avoid offending (similar to avoiding a return to substance abuse). ...
January 2000
... Nationwide, social-therapeutic correctional facilities display heterogeneity regarding the kinds of interventions they offer (25). Besides psychodynamic-oriented milieu therapy, the socialtherapeutic correctional facility in the present study offered both offense-specific group therapy, such as the Sex Offender Treatment Program [SOTP; (26)(27)(28)], strength-based approaches for sexual offender rehabilitation (29), and general and offenseunspecific group treatments, covering topics such as substance abuse and addiction. Additionally, participants can receive individual therapy sessions, special interventions, and support for release planning. ...
January 1998