ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the treatment of adult male sexual offenders. Since 1986, The Safer Society Foundation has been surveying sex offender treatment programs and publishing their results. Beginning in the 1980s, the sex offender treatment field was dominated by the relapse prevention model. The Risk–Need-Responsivity (RNR) model of offender treatment has emerged as one of the most empirically validated and commonly used approaches to offender treatment, including sex offender treatment. The responsivity principle guides the delivery of service. Specifically, it suggests that treatment must be delivered in a way that considers the individual's personality, cognitive ability, language skills, and learning styles. A newer model of sex offender treatment that has quickly gained popularity in sex offender treatment programs is the good lives model (GLM). The GLM also posits four main difficulties that offenders may have in achieving a balanced life. These obstacles include means, scope, conflict, and capacity.
