Does sex offender treatment work

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UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You can change your cookie settings at any time. The programme is intended to reduce sexual reoffending among participants by identifying and addressing known criminogenic needs.

The Ministry of Justice acted "unlawfully" in allowing the Sex Offender Treatment Programme to continue for five years - despite initial research which suggested it wasn't working, a government analyst has said. Kathryn Hopkins said she presented research in which showed the SOTP made sex offenders more harmful, but the programme wasn't halted until Speaking to BBC News after bringing legal action in an employment tribunal, she estimated around more crimes will be committed by sex offenders who were treated during the five years - compared with those who weren't. But the MoJ said Ms Hopkins' research was "flawed".

T he men file in, a few wearing pressed button-down shirts, others jeans caked in mud from work on a construction site. They meet in the living room of an old taupe bungalow on a leafy street in a small Southern city. Someone has shoved a workout bike into the corner to make room for a circle of overstuffed chairs dug up at the local Goodwill. The men jockey for a coveted recliner and settle in.