What’s New
The Comprehensive Assessment Protocol: A Systemwide Review of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offender Management Strategies (CAP) Jurisdictions across the country recognize clearly that the effective management of sex offenders requires more than supervision and treatment. Indeed, the effective management of sex offenders demands the thoughtful integration of these and other management components and, perhaps as importantly, ongoing collaboration among those who are responsible for carrying out these activities. CSOM developed the Comprehensive Assessment Protocol: A Systemwide Review of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offender Management Strategies (CAP) to assist jurisdictions in the enhancement of their management approaches with this offender population. The CAP is a tool that, when used as designed, will guide its users through a deliberate and highly collaborative information-gathering and analysis process. It will identify with a high degree of specificity the strengths of a jurisdiction's sex offender management approach and the steps that can be taken to further enhance and strengthen its system.
Enhancing the Management of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Handbook for Policymakers and Practitioners This handbook is designed to assist policymakers and practitioners in the process of assessing, and strengthening, their adult and juvenile sex offender management approaches. Originally developed for jurisdictions awarded grants through the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, this handbook has been adapted to describe a planning and implementation process that is applicable to all jurisdictions, regardless of size, available resources, or expertise level of those involved in the process.
Increasing Public Safety Through Successful Offender Reentry: Evidence-based and Emerging Practices, is a handbook designed around a framework for successful offender reentry developed through the Community Safety Through Successful Offender Reentry trainings, a series of events conducted around the country. Lessons learned from those sessions about the challenges agencies are facing with regard to reentry have been incorporated into this handbook, providing a tool that will be useful to institutional corrections and community supervision agencies across the country. Sections of the handbook focus on issues related to leadership and organizational change, rational planning, collaboration, and key offender management strategies and e vidence-based and emerging practices. The handbook contains information relevant to those agencies working with adult, juvenile, and women offenders.