Which Supervision Conditions Are Pertinent to These Sex Offenders?
The specific conditions pertaining to sex offenders have received attention in recent years. For each case
below, which additional conditions should be imposed on the offender in terms of his or her offense, and what
challenges of community supervision does each case present?
Assume that conditions for sex offenders include one or more of the following:
No contact with any minor child (including offender’s minor children) if victim of sexual crime was a minor, or no
contact with minors at all even if the victim was of adult age.
Contact with minor children approved only if parole officer approves another supervising adult to be present at
time of contact.

If the offense involved the use of the Internet or a computer, cannot have a personal computer and cannot work
where access to Internet is allowed, or in some jurisdictions can have no computer access at all even if offense
did not involve computer usage.
Notification to neighbors and employers of offender’s sexual offense history and supervision status.
Mandatory participation in sexual offender treatment or aftercare programs.
Mandatory routine polygraph exams as part of treatment or supervision.
If offense involved filming or pictures of victims, no camera or video equipment access allowed.
Cannot work in any employment that would allow access to children or victim-aged groups; cannot be selfemployed.
Cannot live within a certain distance of schools, playgrounds, public parks, or other places where minors
congregate.
Case A: Parolee Steven, Sexual Assault of a Minor
Steven is serving a 5- to 15-year sentence for Sexual Assault of a Minor. He has served seven and one-half
years of his sentence, which is five years beyond the minimum time to be served. Because he has three prior
convictions for similar offenses, he does not have to be released until he has served 10 years of his sentence.
Steven spent time in prison for two of the three prior offenses against minors. Each time he was released, he
successfully completed the release period of parole supervision. All of his victims have been his grandchildren;
family members are strongly opposed to his release and fear he will commit similar acts upon release. Steven
has completed a sexual offender treatment program during this incarceration; he always refused to participate
in treatment during prior incarcerations. The prognosis by the treatment counselor is guarded but indicates that
Steven has worked hard on learning his offending triggers and knows whom to avoid if released. He has not
had any rule violations while incarcerated and has accounting skills. He will be released under the supervision
of a parole officer to a community where none of his family reside and does not want contact with his family. He
has been accepted into a halfway house program and plans on attending community-based sexual offender
aftercare groups.
Case B: Parolee Gloria, Lewd Sexual Conduct and Sexual Contact with a Minor
Gloria has been paroled after serving three years of her nine-year sentence for Lewd Sexual Conduct and
Sexual Contact with a Minor. She was 27 years old at the time of the offense, and her victim was 16. Currently
Gloria is 30 years old; her victim is now 19 years of age and enrolled as a full-time college student in another
state. This is Gloria’s first felony offense, and she has no history of offending behavior under community
supervision. Gloria agreed to complete a sex offender treatment program during her incarceration but claimed
during her counseling sessions that she and her victim loved each other and that sexual relations were
consensual. Gloria still reports feelings for him, but the victim’s family wishes to have no contact with Gloria.
However, at this time no one knows how the victim feels about the relationship because his most recent
contact information was unavailable when the field officer performed her investigations. The field officer did find
out that Gloria’s former employer would not accept her back in her former occupation as a registered nurse
despite Gloria’s statements that the institution would. Gloria wishes to parole back to the same house she lived
in when arrested. She has one male child, aged 13, who has been staying with Gloria’s mother over the last
three years. 
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Case C: Probationer Jonas, Indecent Sexual Behavior with a Minor
Jonas has been placed on probation for indecent sexual behavior with a five-year-old boy. This is his first
felony offense, with two prior misdemeanor offenses as an adult—one count of indecent exposure and one
count of misdemeanor theft. Jonas is now 20 years of age and lives with his maternal aunt, who was his
guardian from when he was the age of 12 until he turned 18. Jonas has never been to prison.
Jonas suffered emotional and sexual abuse from his stepfather and mother for the first six years of his life,
when he became known to Social Services investigating his case. This investigation resulted in his stepfather
being charged with Indecency with a Child, and Jonas was placed in foster care. While in foster care over the
next several years, Jonas was adjudicated numerous times for fire setting and cruelty to animals, for which he
was finally sent to juvenile detention. While in detention at the age of 12, he tried to hurt himself and was
removed to a padded cell for further assessment. Testing revealed that Jonas had attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder and he was prescribed Ritalin. He remained out of the system from the age of 12 until the age of 18,
when he was arrested for indecent exposure.
His IQ was recently assessed using the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI test) and estimated
to be 70 (verbal IQ was 72 and performance IQ 73). His current communicative and daily living skills are
equivalent to that of an eight-year-old boy, and his socialization domain is equivalent to that of a seven-yearold. He has a reduced capacity to learn new information and to solve problems. He has a fourth-grade
education and cannot read very well. He has not yet registered as a sex offender in the state. The PSI
recommends some form of cognitive-behavioral treatment.