Dangerous sex offenders
Subtitle: classifying, predicting, and evaluating outcomes of clinical treatment in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1982-1985
By: principal investigators, Robert Prentky and Raymond Knight
Series: ICPSR -- 8985; ICPSR (Series) -- 8985
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Sex offenders; Classification; Rapists; Child molesters
Description: The purpose of this data collection was to validate two classification systems, one for rapists and one for child molesters, used in a Massachusetts treatment center for sexually aggressive offenders. Rapists and child molesters were classified as two types of sex offenders and then clinically classified into different subtypes based on criteria for the two taxonomies being tested. Variables include type of traffic offenses, criminal offenses, and sex offenses charged. Data on dispositions of cases are also provided along with parole and discharge information. Offenders' post-release offenses were categorized into traffic offenses, non-traffic offenses, and sex offenses.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1982-1985. Data collected: 1982-1985.

Records from the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Treatment Center for sexually aggressive offenders, FBI records, Department of Corrections records, and public safety records

Clinical data.

Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. NIJ 82-IJ-CX-0058.

LRECL data format.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 270 ; variable count: 332 ; LRECL: 2,197 ; records per case: 1.

Of the 1,500 sex offender cases that were referred to the treatment center in Bridgewater, Massachusetts for intensive observation during 1982-1985, 500 were committed and became treatment patients. Of these patients, 270 were released after varying lengths of treatment and were selected as the sample in the study.

Universe: All sex offender cases referred to a treatment center in Bridgewater, Massachusetts for intensive observation and then released.

Prentky, R.A., and R.A. Knight. "Impulsivity in the Lifestyle and Criminal Behavior of Sexual Offenders." Criminal justice and behavior 13 (1986), 141-164.

Knight, R.A., R. Rosenberg, and B. Schneider. Classification of sexual assault: a research handbook. New York: Garland, 1985.