Geographical access to treatment for sex offenders under community supervision in Kentucky |
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| Authors: | Lincoln B. Sloas Paul D. Steele Timothy S. Hare |
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| Affiliation: | 1. George Mason University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence!, Department of Criminology , Law and Society , Fairfax , VA , USA lsloas@gmu.edu;3. Morehead State University, School of Public Affairs, Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy, Center for Justice Studies , Morehead , KY , USA;4. Morehead State University, School of Public Affairs, Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy, Kentucky Center for Geospatial Education, Research and Outreach , Morehead , KY , USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract As sex offenders are probated or paroled into the community, sex offender treatment and monitoring is often a condition of their release. In Kentucky, sex offenders are required to participate in community-based treatment for two years or more. However, some sex offenders are disadvantaged in accessing mandated treatment. This is a result of decisions concerning the placement of treatment programmes, the sex offenders' preference to return to communities where they can rely on family and other indigenous support networks, and some statutes (e.g. sex offender registration and residency restriction laws). This study utilises spatial methodologies, including an origin–destination (OD) matrix, to determine the time, in minutes, that sex offenders travel to sex offender treatment providers and non-spatial ordinary least squares (OLS) regression techniques to determine the association between family, neighbourhood and community characteristics on sex offenders’ travel time to treatment. Findings suggest that there is substantial disadvantage in treatment access, measured by travel time, for sex offenders who live in impoverished rural communities. |
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| Keywords: | Access behavioural model of health service use containment approach OD matrix sex offender treatment |
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