Graeme Richardson, a Psychologist at the Aycliffe Centre for Children, County Durham, addresses the inadequacies of most current interventions with juvenile sexual abusers, considers the approaches now adopted in the United States and advocates sex-offence-specific assessment and treatment, in which properly trained probation officers can play a vital role.
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