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Commonly Used Measures of Sex Offender Program/Strategy Performance

Treatment Programs

Process Measures

• Number of face-to-face contacts between treatment provider and sex offender
• Number of meetings between the sex offender, therapist, and probation officer
• Number of visits by probation officers to the home of the sex offender
• Number of months incarcerated
• Number of months of in-prison treatment
• Number of urine screenings for drugs/alcohol
• Number of medication-induced side effects
• Level of community supervision received
• Type of pharmacological treatment received
• Type of medication-induced side effects
• Dosage of pharmacological treatment

Outcome Measures

• Proportion of reconvictions for sexual offenses
• Proportion of reconvictions for violent offenses
• Proportion of other reconvictions (nonsexual and nonviolent)
• Reincarceration rate
• Proportion of felony and non-felony arrests
• Change in treatment motivation
• Change in treatment engagement
• Increase in offender emotional health or adjustment
• Increase in offender self-esteem
• Increase in offender well-being
• Increase in offender self-actualization
• Increase in offender satisfaction with therapy
• Decrease in pro-offending attitudes
• Decrease in sexual fantasies
• Decrease in sexual drive
• Decrease in sexual arousal
• Decrease in sexual behavior
• Decrease in serum testosterone levels

Sex Offender Laws

Process Measures

• Types of sex offender notification strategies (such as flyers, newspaper ads)
• Number of flyers posted
• Number of door-to-door notifications
• Number of community sex offender awareness meetings
• Number of newspaper ads notifying the community
• Number of agencies/partners in community involved in the management of sex offenders
• Percent of affected schools that posted flyers

Outcome Measures

• Increase in public safety
• Increase in treatment compliance
• Increase in offender awareness of his/her risk
• Increase in tracking and monitoring of offenders
• Increase in victim awareness of sex offender laws
• Decrease in sexual offense recidivism
• Decrease in sexual assaults on children
• Change in offender's perceptions of the sex offender law
• Change in offender's attitudes toward sex offender treatment
• Changes in offender's behavior due to community notification
• Changes in public levels of anxiety regarding sex offenders due to community notification
• Amount of offender harassment by public due to community notification
• Amount of public vigilantism toward offenders due to community notification

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