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and targeted intervention has a preventive effect. 660 The primary objective of the specialist treatment
of young people with serious sexual problems is to reduce the likelihood of re-offending by working
on the development of the young people. 661 Treatment on offer is aimed towards the undesired sexually
inappropriate behaviour and the underlying psychopathology, whereby much attention is paid to
recognising risk factors, teaching alternative behaviours, and introducing or creating protective factors.
Therapy takes place in group sessions as well as individually. Up until 2010, young people with
serious sexual problems placed under criminal and civil law were assigned to an Avenier programme
and treated at the Anker site. Since the division between youths placed under criminal and civil law
was introduced, boys who have been convicted under criminal law for committing a sexual offence
and have received an order for placement in a young offenders’ institution, can be placed in the Den
Hey-Acker judicial youth institution. Den Hey-Acker has separate groups for young people with serious
sexual problems. 662 Young people who display serious sexual problems but who have not been issued
with a treatment order on the grounds of a criminal conviction can be placed in one of two groups for
young people with serious sexual problems at the Anker secure youth care centre, on the basis of an
authorisation for placement in secure youth care or under guardianship. 663 It is highly important that
treatment of young sex offenders continues to exist, and that this is also considered and approached
as a question of public healthcare.
Juvenile Probation and After-care Services
If, within the youth justice system, suspended sentences with a special condition are imposed, the Juvenile
Probation and After-care Service is assigned responsibility for supervision and counselling within
the scope of a help and support measure. 664 The process of after-care can, for example, start at the time
at which the young person is granted release from the pre-trial detention, is imposed with a suspended
sentence or order, receives an order to influence behaviour or leaves a judicial institution for young offenders.
The Juvenile Probation and After-care Service forms part of the Youth Care Agency. A separate
chapter in the Handbook on the juvenile probation and after-care method is devoted to young people
who have committed sexual offences. 665 Treatment, often in the form of group sessions, sets out to
address the deficits and needs displayed in the behaviour of specific offenders, and attempts are made
to provide the young people with strategies to prevent relapse. 666 It is striking that in the Handbook on
the juvenile probation and after-care method, not a single reference is made to the role of the Internet
on criminal behaviour, or on the relationship between sexual abuse and child pornography. Although
problematic online behaviour may be discussed in contact with clients and their parents in individual
cases, there has been no mention until now of structurally embedding the digital component in the
treatment. 667
660 Schotel-van der Veer, 2009, p.2.
661 Schotel-van der Veer, 2009, p.11.
662 See www.dji.nl/Organisatie/Locaties/Justitiele-jeugdinrichtingen/Den-Hey-Acker/index.aspx (viewed
3 August 2011).
663 See www.desprengen.nl/nl/p4cffa84e9fa3d/professionals.html (viewed 3 August 2011).
664 Article 77aa, paragraph 2 of the Dutch Criminal Code. The juvenile probation service forms part of a
Youth Care Agency.
665 Vogelvang, 2005, p.183.
666 Vogelvang, 2005, pp.183-184.
667 Verbal information from the Juvenile Probation Service, 1 June 2011.