State Sex Offender Treatment Programs: 50 - State Survey

November 1, 2000

Dear Criminal Justice Colleagues:

The Colorado Department of Corrections recently completed a survey of 50 states and the District of Columbia covering sex offender treatment and management programs. Areas surveyed included legislative influences on state programs as well as program structure within state prison systems. Many states also provided curriculum, assessment tools, standards of care and other materials used within their programs.

The survey consisted of twenty-one (21) pages containing seventy-eight (78) questions. Responses were received from forty-three (43) states and the District of Columbia, including Colorado. This vast research endeavor was conducted by Paula Wenger, a private consultant in Colorado.

The completeness of the survey report could not have been accomplished without significant effort from the responding states. I would like to thank the executive staff of each participating department of corrections for their willingness to support their program and research staff in working on the survey.

I believe you will find the nationwide scope of this document informative and useful in the further development of sex offender programs.

Sincerely, ..more.. by COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS