Motivating offenders to change: A guide to enhancing engagements in therapy

By Mary McMurran, C. Hollin, G. Bernfeld, David P. Farrington. 2002

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Can pedophiles be reached for primary prevention of child sexual abuse? First results of the Berlin Prevention Project Dunkelfeld (PPD) (2009, background): “As a result, the media campaign bears nothing that may be associated with punishment; considering that punishment demonstrably fails to motivate offenders to change (Hollin, 2002), this appears to be a favorable quality of the PPD’s media campaign.”
The place of the officer-offender relationship in assisting offenders to desist from crime (2005, background): “(p. 44) James McGuire (2002) has made a similar observation about the surprising neglect of interpersonal skills and relationship skills in the body of research investigating the effectiveness of interventions with offenders, in comparison to research in the mental health field.”
The role of the therapist in offender treatment (2004, background): “The standard approach to treatment with offenders tends to be psychoeducational in nature and often relies on detailed treatment manuals (Green, 1995; Robinson and Porporino, 2001; Cordess, 2002).”