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In June 1991, the Home Secretary announced that Her Majesty’s Prison Service of England and Wales would introduce a national strategy for the treatment of imprisoned sexual offenders. Sexual offenders would be concentrated in a smaller number of prisons that would offer a unified group treatment program that would be designed in line with research about effective treatment for this type of offender, and the program would be centrally designed, monitored, evaluated, and refined (Grubin & Thornton, 1994; Thornton & Hogue, 1993). Since 1991, the Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) has been established in 25 penal establishments, ranging from the highest security to the lowest, and is situated in every part of the country, from Northumbria to Devon.
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Mann, R.E., Thornton, D. (1998). The Evolution of a Multisite Sexual Offender Treatment Program. In: Marshall, W.L., Fernandez, Y.M., Hudson, S.M., Ward, T. (eds) Sourcebook of Treatment Programs for Sexual Offenders. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1916-8_4
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