TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Punishment or therapy? The ethics of sexual offending treatment
JO  - Journal of sexual aggression
A1  - Ward, Tony
SP  - 286
EP  - 295
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
N2  - The claim that sex offender treatment is a form of punishment and as such cannot be covered by traditional ethical codes is a controversial one. It challenges the ethical basis of current practice and compels clinicians to rethink the work they do with sex offenders. In this paper I comment on Bill Glaser's defence of that idea in a challenging and timely paper and David Prescott and Jill Leveson's rejection of his claims. First, I consider briefly the nature of both punishment and treatment and outline Glaser's argument and Prescott and Levenson's rejoinder. I then investigate what a comprehensive argument for either position should look like and finish with a few comments on each paper.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1355-2600
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2010.483822
ID  - ref1
ER  -