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Minnesota DOC Report Suggests Recidivism Lowered With Sex Offender Treatment  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 14, Number 01, May/June 2012 , pp.13-13(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Controlling for other factors, prison-based treatment significantly reduced the hazard ratio [risk of recidivism] for a new sex offense rearrest, decreasing it by 27% the study found.

Keywords: Prison-based sex offender treatment; sex-offender recidivism.

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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