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Polish project of a Sex Offenders Registry – a mental health professionals’ perspective
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Zakład Seksuologii Społecznej i Klinicznej, Instytut Psychologii UAM w Poznaniu
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Centrum Ewaluacji i Analiz Polityk Publicznych UJ
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Uniwersytet SWPS, Wydział Zamiejscowy w Katowicach
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Katedra Psychiatrii UJ CM
Submission date: 2016-03-26
Acceptance date: 2016-04-26
Publication date: 2016-06-08
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Krzysztof Kasparek
Centrum Ewaluacji i Analiz Polityk Publicznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Centrum Ewaluacji i Analiz Polityk Publicznych, Wydział Filozoficzny Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Polska
Psychiatr Pol 2016;50(3):487-496
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The paper discusses the governmental draft of the Act on counteracting threats of sexual offences. It assumes the creation of the Registry of Sex Offenders in a version with a limited access and a version available to the public. The registry is supplemented with a publically available map of sexual crime threats, which includes the places of sexual offences and the places of residence of offenders. Criticising the proposed solutions, the authors point out the lack of integration with other interventions conducted in Poland against sex offenders, noncompliance with the recommendations of the most important expert circles in the field, as well as the research results showing the lack of effectiveness of the planned measures to reduce sexual offences. Anumber of negative consequences of making the sex offenders’data available to the public was also highlighted in the form of a clear deterioration of social rehabilitation prognoses, additional stigmatisation, as well as social exclusion of the offenders themselves and the victims of sexual violence. The summary emphasises the need to counteract the problem of sexual offences in a systematic way and the need to diversify the interventions undertaken against the offenders, depending on the level of risk of sexual recidivism.