ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a demonstration study project conducted out of the School of Social Work of Memorial University of Newfoundland. It analyzes the conceptual and theoretical base for the group as well as some of the practice issues and outcomes associated with integrating therapy and mutual aid within a sociopolitical context that promotes monitoring and supervision of sex offenders. Public perception would probably lead to the conclusion that these tortured souls were so “tortured” by virtue of having served “hard time” in some of the most demanding penal institutions in Canada. The community-based program designed by Kimberley and Rowe in 1990 applied the philosophy that sex offenders were treatable and that one of the outcomes of a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment was a determination of readiness for treatment and suitability for group treatment.
