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A community treatment service for sex offenders

An account at two years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Eric F. Mendelson
Affiliation:
Ravenswood House, Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hants
Michael Quinn
Affiliation:
Forensic Psychiatry, The Edenfield Centre, Prestwich Hospital, Manchester
Sue Dutton
Affiliation:
Forensic Psychiatry, The Edenfield Centre, Prestwich Hospital, Manchester
Kishore Seewonarain
Affiliation:
Forensic Psychiatry, The Edenfield Centre, Prestwich Hospital, Manchester
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If you have been referred a sex offender recently, you will probably still be conscious of how difficult it is on an individual basis to provide a comprehensive treatment approach. Indeed, in our area, as in nearly all areas, there has been little therapeutic help available for sex offenders outside the special hospital system, and certainly little for those in the community.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988

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