Query over treatment for sex offenders

SOME sexual offenders may not be getting the most effective psychological treatments available, a new study claims.

A British Medical Journal (BMJ) report also warns that evidence for the efficacy of sex offender treatment programmes is often too readily accepted uncritically.

“Better understanding of the outcomes of treatments — either controlling and moderating or harming and worsening behaviour — could at least focus on the most beneficial and cost-effective interventions,” the report states.