Rehabilitating Sex Offenders: Our Approach Offenders must learn responsible behavior, and our treatment programs use various techniques to help them rehabilitate. Through treatment, sex offenders come to understand the damaging effects of their behavior and develop empathy for the victim....

There is some evidence that individuals can gain voluntary control over their sexual arousal patterns through behavioral conditioning, such that someone who is attracted to “underage” persons could learn to suppress their sexual arousal to the underage category. There is...

I have been called down at seminars and presentations by merely reciting the title of the criminal charge… “It’s not child porn, it’s pictures of child sexual abuse… noted in Federal Sex Offender Treatment Programs. There are no child pornography...

Texas does allow certain sex offenders to petition for early termination of their obligation to register, a process commonly referred to as deregistration. Under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 62.401–62.408, a strictly defined legal and clinical pathway exists for...

Adolescence and The Law – Current Challenges Offices are in Dallas, Preston Hollow/Medical City, Texas. (214) 431-2032 The new issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal *Current Directions in Psychological Science* is a special issue devoted to “The Teenage...