7Strategies for Preventing Reoffending: A Course for Sex Offenders

Working with groups of offenders against children, combining prevention, social skills and education, has proved helpful to participants and so far there have been no reconvictions.- Group work-specifically with sex offenders in the community is relatively uncommon and the literature available about it is sparse. Apart from David Crawford and Judith ~ll~n’ ~ work in social skills training, 1; Cbrist:ÍŒ ’ Weaver and Charles Fox>-s Bristol probation project2 is probably the best documented and well known. In developing our own practice, we became aware that the work done so far Î1’l(bis field often falls between two themes: that which concentratesonly on the offending behaviour and its direct prevention, and that which attempts to provide sex offenders with the necessary socia