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Suggested Reading

Treatment works: Therapy effective, often unavailable
By Elaine Thompson, Worcester Telegram and Gazette, June 10, 2007

For Sex Offenders, a Dispute Over Therapy’s Benefits
By Abby Goodnough and Monica Davey

A Record of Failure at Center for Sex Offenders
By Abby Goodnough and Monica Davey

Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison
By Abby Goodnough and Monica Davey

Are Sex Offenders Treatable?
Grossman L, Martis, B, Fichtner, C: Psych Serv. 349-361, 1999.

Psychiatric aspects of the assessment and treatment of sex offenders. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
Gordon H, Grubin, D: 10:73-80, 2004

A Profile of Pedophilia: Definition, Characteristics of Offenders, Recidivism, Treatment Outcomes, and Forensic Issues.
Authors Ryan C.W. Hall MD and Richard C.W. Hall, MD, PA. Mayo ClinProc. 2007(4):457-471

Pharmacotherapy of Paraphilias in the Next Millennium.
Authors Ariel Rosler, MD, and Eliezer Witztum, MD. Behavioral Sciences and the Law 18:43-56 (2000).

The Case of Jeffrey Dahmer: Sexual Serial Homicide from a Neuropsychiatric Developmental Perspective.
Authors J.Arturo Silva MD, Michelle M. Ferrari MD, and Gregory B. Leong MD. Journal of Forensic Sciences Nov. 2002, Vol. 47, No. 6.

The Neurobiology, Neuropharmacology, and Pharmacological Treatment of the Paraphilias and Compulsive Sexual Behavior.
Author John MW Bradford, MB, ChB, DPM, FF Psych, FRC Psych, DABPN, DABFP, FRCPC. Can J Psychiatry 2001;46:26-334).

Expert Testimony in Sexually Violent Predator Commitments: Conceptualizing Legal Standards of “Mental Disorder” and “Likely to Reoffend”.
Authors Shoba Sreenivasan PhD, Linda E. Weinberger PhD, and Thomas Garrick MD. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 31:471-85, 2003.

The Making of a Molester.
Author Daniel Bergner. NY Times. Jan 2005.