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Abstract: 

For almost two decades, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has operated the Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP). The program opened in 1990 at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Butner, NC. In a voluntary, therapeutic community, the SOTP provides cognitive- behavioral therapy and relapse prevention for a caseload of approximately 112 male sex offenders. The SOTP typically lasts be tween 18 and 36 months and is provided to individuals within one-and-a-half to three years from release into the community. (N. Jones, B. Pellisier, and J. Klein-Saffran, “Predicting Sex Offender Treatment Entry Among Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offense Crimes,” 18 Sexual Abuse: A J. of Res. & Treatment 83-98 (2006).) Typically, individuals who are accepted into the program have been convicted of Internet-related offenses or an offense involving a minor.

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Affiliations:  1: John Jay College of Criminal Justice; 2: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.