NPRC- Resource Package for Paroling Authorities on Criminal Justice Involved Women

Introduction

Key Documents for Paroling Authorities on Sex Offenders

Special Challenges Facing Parole
This guide summarizes the key issues, highlights the recent research, and provides suggestions about where to find more extensive and detailed resources about special populations parole boards may have contact with including sex offenders.

Fact Sheet: What You Need to Know About Sex Offenders
This fact sheet was developed for members of the public who want to know more about sexual assault, sex offenders, and the role that citizens can play in keeping their communities safe. It highlights key issues related to sex offenses and the management of sex offenders who are under the control of the justice system.

Twenty Strategies for Advancing Sex Offender Management in Your Jurisdiction
This document offers evidence-based and promising strategies for policymakers interested in advancing adult and juvenile sex offender management in their jurisdictions. In addition to providing an overview of each policy approach, the document describes the efforts of jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada to implement these strategies.
The Comprehensive Assessment Protocol: A Systemwide Review of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offender Management Strategies (CAP)
Jurisdictions across the country recognize clearly that the effective management of sex offenders requires more than supervision and treatment. Indeed, the effective management of sex offenders demands the thoughtful integration of these and other management components and, perhaps as importantly, ongoing collaboration among those who are responsible for carrying out these activities. CSOM developed the Comprehensive Assessment Protocol: A Systemwide Review of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offender Management Strategies (CAP) to assist jurisdictions in the enhancement of their management approaches with this offender population. The CAP is a tool that, when used as designed, will guide its users through a deliberate and highly collaborative information-gathering and analysis process. It will identify with a high degree of specificity the strengths of a jurisdiction's sex offender management approach and the steps that can be taken to further enhance and strengthen its system.
Enhancing the Management of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Policymakers and Practitioners
This handbook is designed to assist policymakers and practitioners in the process of assessing, and strengthening, their adult and juvenile sex offender management approaches. Originally developed for jurisdictions awarded grants through the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, this handbook has been adapted to describe a planning and implementation process that is applicable to all jurisdictions, regardless of size, available resources, or expertise level of those involved in the process.
Case Studies on CSOM's National Resource Sites, 2nd Edition, Revised
In an effort to highlight some of the most promising sex offender management practices in the nation, the Center for Sex Offender Management has developed case studies of CSOM's nineteen National Resource Sites. The case studies showcase the many unique strategies that the CSOM Resource Sites have implemented to effectively manage sex offenders under community supervision and offer the sites' experiences as lessons to other jurisdictions interested in learning more about how to establish or enhance their own sex offender management practices.
The Importance of Assessment in Sex Offender Management: An Overview of Key Principles and Practices
This policy and practice brief provides an overview of underlying principles and promising practices relative to assessments and emphasizes the integral role that assessments play in ensuring informed and effective management of this population. It is designed for all stakeholders who have a role in sex offender management, whether as gatherers or consumers of assessment data. These stakeholders include judges, release decisionmakers, evaluators, treatment providers, personnel within correctional facilities, probation and parole officers, and administrators at all levels.
The Comprehensive Approach to Sex Offender Management
The Comprehensive Approach to Sex Offender Management is a framework that has been developed to define and encourage a strategic and collaborative response to managing sex offenders and reducing recidivism. The Comprehensive Approach offers a promising and well–grounded framework that jurisdictions can consider using to build an informed, integrated set of policies and practices to promote the shared goal of ensuring victim and community safety.
Key Considerations for Reunifying Adult Sex Offenders and their Families
This document has been developed for use by probation and parole officers, treatment providers, victim advocates, and others who work with sex offenders or the victims of sexual abuse. It provides an overview of the dynamics and key issues warranting attention when considering reunification and preservation with adult sex offenders as part of a broader, more comprehensive approach to sex offender management.
Female Sex Offenders
This policy and practice brief synthesizes the research and other professional literature about women and adolescent girls who commit sex offenses. This review encompasses what is known about the seemingly low incidence of these crimes and their under-recognition, common characteristics and typologies of female sex offenders, and key considerations relative to assessment, treatment, and supervision strategies. It is intended for a wide range of professionals, including criminal and juvenile justice practitioners, court officials, treatment providers, child welfare personnel, victim advocates, and others who may be involved in the broader management of this special population.
Legislative Trends in Sex Offender Management
This resource document provides lawmakers and other interested parties, such as agency directors, court officials, and criminal justice practitioners with an overview of legislative trends in sex offender management, the intended objectives of the laws, and key research exploring the impact of these policy initiatives.
Recidivism of Sex Offenders
This paper examines the critical issues in defining recidivism and provides a synthesis of the current research on the reoffense rates of sex offenders. Also discussed are factors and conditions that appear to be associated with reduced sexual offending and the implications that these findings have for sex offender management.
Managing the Challenges of Sex Offender Reentry
This policy and practice brief is designed to inform the efforts of correctional administrators and staff, parole boards and other releasing authorities, community supervision officials, treatment providers, and non-criminal justice partners as they work collaboratively to support the successful transition of sex offenders from prison to the community while ensuring victim and community safety.
Community Supervision of the Sex Offender: An Overview of Current and Promising Practices
The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview and discussion of emerging practices and lessons in communities across the country in the management of sex offenders under community supervision.
Understanding Treatment for Adults and Juveniles Who Have Committed Sex Offenses
The purpose of this brief is to provide a broad overview of current research, professional literature, and practice trends relative to treatment for sexually abusive individuals. Although specialized clinicians may find this brief to be of interest, the primary intended audience is the range of other management professionals seeking to understand key issues about treatment for adults and juveniles who have committed sex offenses.

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list. These documents represent a core set of recommended readings for professionals working with justice involved women. For additional information and literature for paroling authorities about more specific topics regarding sex offenders, please visit the Center for Sex Offender Management Web site (www.csom.org).

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