How is the Post-Conviction Polygraph Examination Used in Adult Sex Offender Management Activities

摘要

As part of this research, we built on an earlier study funded by NIJ in 1992. That study focused specifically on presenting descriptions of (1) how sex offenders were being managed in community settings, and (2) how they could best be managed. Those findings were reported in English, Pullen, Jones and Colling-Chadwick (1995) and English, Pullen, and Jones (1996). Below we provide a brief overview of the methods undertaken in the earlier study because parts of that approach were replicated in the current study. In 1994 we conducted the first national telephone survey of probation and parole supervisors inquiring about sex offender management. Probation and parole supervisors were selected because of their familiarity with day-to-day office operations. The survey represented a national sample, stratified by population and geography, of 732 probation and parole supervisors. The telephone survey was part of a two-year investigation that included an extensive literature review on victim trauma and sex offender treatment and a systematic document review of scores of material ranging from agency memoranda and protocols to legislation and administrative orders. The study included field research involving site visits to 13 jurisdictions in six states (Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, and Oregon). During the field research, interviews were conducted with probation and parole officers and administrators, victim advocates, polygraph examiners, parole board members, treatment providers, prosecuting and defense attorneys, social service workers, sex offenders, judges, law enforcement officers, and prison treatment staff and administrators. The current research built on this study and methodology.