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Sex Offender Treatment: Does It Work?

By Arielle Trimm

Albany, NY – Over the past few months, crackdowns by local government on sex offenders have become widespread in the Northeast region from expanding the sex offender registry, to requring offenders to wear GPS anklets, to Civil Confinement legilsation. Our Capital District Bureau Chief Arielle Trimm talked with a leading psychologist to get his take on how to make society safe.