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Criminological Evaluation of the Social Therapy Institution in Halle (Saale)

Intention of the study

This study intends the external evaluation of the social therapy institution in Halle (Saale), which is one of the largest organizations in the German penal system treating almost only sex offenders.

In order to examine the effect of social therapy, data analyses focus on
   •  changes in the dynamic risk factors during the therapeutic process,
   •  the stability of the changes after release,
   •  the meaning of particular static risk factors for the recidivism.

Data are acquired (1) at the beginning, (2) at the end of the social therapy and (3) as well as two years after release.

The study is focused on these sex offenders treated in one German social therapy institution. The main group will be compared to other sex offenders, who are in regular penal institutions. Special attention is turned to those sex offenders, who broke off with the therapy or who are attending therapy in prison.
Some conspicuousness already shows according to the static and to the dynamic characteristics. At the moment the data are collected, in the following years the questions will be answered in a scientifically sound manner using the large sample.

Team

Prof. Dr. Kai-D. Bussmann

Dipl.-Soz. Simone Seifert
Dipl.-Psych. Kathrin Richter

cand.-psych. Stefanie Werner-Houndjo
cand.-soz. Anja Thyrolf
cand.-soz. Antje Gansewig

Posterpräsentation_Untersuchungsdesign_Aug.2005 (GERMAN)
geschützt_Posterpräsentation_UD_Aug.2005.pdf (36.2 KB)  vom 13.02.2007

Poster presentation_IATSO_Hamburg_2006
Poster_IATSO_Hamburg_2006_engl.pdf (40.2 KB)  vom 12.02.2007

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