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["Looman Jan (ONT)" <LoomanJA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: RE: [ATSA-LIST] Sex Offender Denial
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:33:23 -0500
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One of my issues with the lack of relationship between denial and recidivism
is that, if I'm not mistaken, most of the data is pre-treatment denial.  It
does not necessarily reflect changes in denial with treatment.

Jan Looman
Regional Treatment Centre
Kingston ON

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Prescott y Keeler [mailto:bc766@lafn.org]
		Sent:	Friday, February 25, 2000 9:12 AM
		To:	CHILD MALTREATMENT RESEARCH; atsa-list
		Subject:	[ATSA-LIST] Sex Offender Denial

		Regarding denial not being a correlate with recidivism:

		Two things are not being said about denial.

		Denial can severely limit a sex offender's ability in
treatment to fully
		address those issues that correlate strongly with reoffense.

		Secondly, if an offender is successful at denial it may well
be also true
		that they would score well on deception.  A low recidivism
rate could be a
		reflection of a high deceptive ability.

		Ken Prescott, MSW, LCSW
		Los Angeles, California