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The ethics of care and treatment of sex offenders

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posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Tony Ward, K Salmon
The ethics of care acknowledges the importance of establishing and maintaining practices that help people to meet their needs, develop and protect basic capabilities for problem solving, emotional functioning, and social interaction, and avoid pain and suffering. In this article, we explore the contribution an ethics of care perspective can make to work with sex offenders. First, we briefly describe five classes of ethical problems evident in work with sex offenders. Second, the concept of care is defined and a justification for a version of care theory provided. Third, we apply the care ethical theory to ethical issues with sex offenders and demonstrate its value in responding to the five classes of problems outlined earlier.

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Journal

Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment

Volume

23

Pagination

397 - 413

Location

Thousand Oaks, Calif.

ISSN

1079-0632

eISSN

1573-286X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, The Authors

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