ACTUALIDAD Y FUTURO DEL TRATAMIENTO Y LA REINSERCIÓN SOCIAL DE LOS DELINCUENTES SEXUALES.

Due to the severe repercussions a sex offence victim suffers, the prevention, treatment and community reintegration of sexual offenders is a priority for most of the societies around the world. Firstly, this study reviews the current state of sex offenders' treatment programs applied over the previous decades in the Spanish prisons and then reviews the main results found from the effectiveness of the intervention. The effectiveness of these programs has been traditionally assessed through several recidivism measurement of treated sex offenders; and more recently throughout the therapeutic change of the offender's main risk factors such as attitudes and justifications of violence, aggressiveness, social skills difficulties, etc. Secondly, this paper introduces the recent treatment innovations used with sex offenders within the community. Their aim is to improve the social reintegration of sex offenders into the community and thus prevent them from harming new victims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]