Evaluation of New Jersey's sex offender treatment program at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center: Preliminary results Article

Zgoba, KM, Sager, WR, Witt, PH. (2003). Evaluation of New Jersey's sex offender treatment program at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center: Preliminary results . 31(2), 133-164. 10.1177/009318530303100202

cited authors

  • Zgoba, KM; Sager, WR; Witt, PH

authors

abstract

  • This study examined 10-year sexual and non-sexual offense recidivism for sex offenders released from New Jersey's general prison system and from the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADTC), New Jersey's correctional facility and treatment center for repetitive-compulsive sexual offenders. The study found that sexual offenders released from the ADTC had significantly lower rates of committing both non-sexual offenses and any offense, compared with the general prison population of sex offenders. For both groups, the 10-year sexual offense reconviction rates were relatively low, 8.6% for the ADTC offenders and 12.7% for the general prison sexual offenders, while reoffense rates for non-sexual offenses were 25.8% and 44.1% for ADTC and general prison sex offenders, respectively.

publication date

  • January 1, 2003

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 133

end page

  • 164

volume

  • 31

issue

  • 2