Sexual offenders (in prison) – therapy and correction

Timetable

Time: wednesday, 13.15 - 14.45

Place: room 203, Międzychodzka 5.  

Organizational classes: 02.10.2024

If the student will not be able to register for classes in USOS system (during the registration time in October) due to the limit of available places, please inform the teacher via e-mail: m.sadowska@amu.edu.pl

Module aim (aims)

• providing information on the functioning of selected groups of sex offenders based on pedagogical, psychological and criminological theories
• familiarizing students with the methods of psychological and penitentiary diagnosis used in Polish and European prisons
• providing information about psychological treatment and penitentiary work with sexual offenders
• acquainting students with chances of success and threats affecting work with sexual offenders
• discussion on individual cases of sexual offenders and forms of psychological and penitentiary work with them
• develop teamwork skills.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Not required.

Syllabus

Week 1:           Sexual disorders - concept, diagnostic criteria, division.

Week 2:           Perpetrators of multiple rape - psychological characteristics.

Week 3:           Incest - psychological characteristics.

Week 4:           Pedophilia - psychological characteristics.

Week 5:           Psychological models and mechanisms of formation of sexual disorders.

Week 6:           Models used to diagnosis of sexual disorders.

Week 7:           Legal response to a sexual offense in Poland.

Week 8:           Legal response to a sexual offense in selected European countries.

Week 9:           Victims - effects of sexual offenses.

Week 10:         Therapy of sex offenders during incarceration.

Week 11:         Penitentiary work with sexual offenders during imprisonment.

Week 12:          Social and institutional support for sex offenders after serving a prison sentence. Social security.

Week 13:          Psychological and correctional practice with perpetrators of sexual offenses in selected European countries.

Week 14:          Case studies.

Week 15:          Summary and end of class.

Reading list

• Jill S. Levenson, Gwenda M. Willis, Claudia P. Vincencio, Obstacles to Help-Seeking for Sexual Offenders: Implications for Prevention of Sexual Abuse, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10538712.2016.1276116
• Lyne Piché, Jeffrey Mathesius, Patrick Lussier, Preventative Services for Sexual Offenders, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1079063216630749
• James F. Quinn,Craig J. Forsyth &Carla Mullen-Quinn, Societal reaction to sex offenders: a review of the origins and results of the myths surrounding their crimes and treatment amenability, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639620490431147
• Lettie L. Lockhart,Benjamin E. Saunders &Peggy Cleveland, Adult Male Sexual Offenders: An Overview of Treatment Techniques, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J291v07n02_01
• Franca Cortoni, What Is So Special About Female Sexual Offenders? Introduction to the Special Issue on Female Sexual Offenders, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1079063214564392?journalCode=saxb
• Poco D. Kernsmith ,Sarah W. Craun &Jonathan Foster, Public Attitudes Toward Sexual Offenders and Sex Offender Registration, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10538710902901663
• Karl Hanson, Guy Bourgon, Leslie Helmus, The Principles of Effective Correctional Treatment Also Apply To Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0093854809338545
• CAROLM VENEZIANO, LOUIS VENEZIANO, Adolescent Sex Offenders: A Review of the Literature, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1524838002237329
• Ramona Alaggia, Delphine Collin-Vézina, Rusan Lateef, Facilitators and Barriers to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Disclosures: A Research Update (2000–2016), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1524838017697312