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Written question asked by Philip Davies (Conservative) on Thursday, 22 February 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 26 February 2007. It was answered by Gerry Sutcliffe (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 March 2007 on behalf of the Home Office.


Sexual Offences

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the re-offending rate was of sex offenders who (a) attended and (b) did not attend the sexual offender treatment programme in each of the last five years.
Answer

An analysis of the data on overall reconviction rates for sex offenders who attended and did not attend the sexual offender treatment programme is not available.Evaluations of the Sex Offender Treatment Programme provide evidence of a small but positive impact of the programme on future offending. For example, research found a statistically significant reduction in combined sexual and violent reconviction for HMPS SOTP participants compared to matched non-participants (although not for sexual reconviction) (Friendship, Mann & Beech, 2003). The National Offender Management Service is developing an evaluation strategy for the sex offender treatment programme.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
457 c2061W;457 c2047W; 123767
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Rehabilitation Sexual offences Reoffenders Sex offender treatment programme
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk