Following the Dutroux affair which rocked Belgium in 1996, the Belgian minister for justice signed cooperation agreements with the country's three regions (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels-Capital), imposing on sex offenders therapy or treatment as an alternative to imprisonment. What legal programme is now in place for their management? Experience of the Brussels support centre.
Keywords: accord de coopération; auteur d’infractions à caractère sexuel; centre d’appui; cooperation agreement; court-ordered therapy; dangerosité; dangerousness; délinquant sexuel; injonction de soins; repeat offence; récidive; sex abuser; sex offender; support centre.
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