Citation

Hanson RK. J. Sex. Aggress. 2014; 20(1): 3-8.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13552600.2013.861524

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The field of sexual offender treatment has drawn inspiration from two major social movements: The women's movement, which defined sexual victimisation as a serious social problem, and correctional rehabilitation, which provided the vision and methods to reintegrate offenders as law-abiding citizens. In this retrospective, I argue that we should also be guided by a third social force: The movement for evidence-based practice. In order to realise the potential of evidence-based practice, we need to support more and better research on sexual offender treatment.