Section 1905.20   Definitions

In this Part, the terms "Board," "sex offender," "sex offense," "management," and "sexually motivated" have the meanings ascribed to them in Section 10 of the Act.  In addition, the following definitions apply:

"Accountability": Accurate attributions of responsibility, without distortion, minimization, or denial.

                        "Act": Sex Offender Management Board Act [20 ILCS 4026].

"Behavioral monitoring": A variety of methods for checking, regulating, and supervising the behavior of sex offenders.

"Case management": The coordination and implementation of the cluster of activities directed toward supervising, treating, and managing the behavior of individual sex offenders. (See the definition of containment approach.)

"Containment approach": A method of case management and treatment that seeks to hold offenders accountable through the combined use of both offenders' internal controls and external control measures (such as the use of polygraph and relapse prevention plans).  A containment approach requires the integration of a collection of attitudes, expectations, laws, policies, procedures, and practices that have clearly been designed to work together. This approach is implemented through interagency and interdisciplinary teamwork.

"Containment team": A group comprising, at a minimum, a sex offender's  supervising officer, and treatment provider and utilizing the containment approach.  Team members may change over time as issues develop regarding treatment and supervision.

"Defense mechanisms": Normal, adaptive, self-protective functions that keep human beings from feeling overwhelmed and/or becoming psychotic, but which become dysfunctional when overused or overgeneralized.

"Denial": As used in Subpart D of this Part, a defense mechanism used to protect the ego from anxiety-producing information.

"Evaluation": The systematic collection and analysis of psychological, behavioral, and social information; the process by which information is gathered, analyzed, and documented.

"Experience": Any activity directly related to providing evaluation and/or treatment to individual sex offenders, e.g., face-to-face therapy, report writing, administration, scoring, and interpretation of tests; participation on containment teams of the type described in this Part; and clinical supervision of therapists treating sex offenders.

"Informed assent": Compliance; a declaration of willingness to do something in compliance with a request; acquiescence; agreement.  The use of the term "assent" rather than "consent" in this Part recognizes that sex offenders are not voluntary clients, and that their choices are therefore more limited.  Informed means that a person's assent is based on a full disclosure of the facts needed to make the decision intelligently, e.g., knowledge of risks involved, alternatives.

"Informed consent": "Consent" means voluntary agreement or approval to do something in compliance with a request.  "Informed" means that a person's consent is based on a full disclosure of the facts needed to make the decision intelligently, e.g., knowledge of risks involved, alternatives.

"Non-deceptive polygraph examination result":  A non-deceptive polygraph examination result must include a deceptive response to control questions.  Any inconclusive or deceptive response to any relevant question disallows a non-deceptive examination result.

"Parole": Parole or mandatory supervised release.

"Polygraph": The employment of instrumentation, as defined by the Illinois Detection of Deception Examiners Act [225 ILCS 430], used for the purpose of detecting deception or verifying truth of statements of a person under criminal justice supervision and/or treatment for the commission of sex offenses.  A clinical polygraph examination is specifically intended to assist in the treatment and supervision of convicted sex offenders.  Clinical polygraphs include specific-issue, disclosure and periodic or maintenance examinations.  Clinical polygraphs may also be referred to as post-conviction polygraphs.

"Professional license": A license issued by a State governmental body to practice a particular health or mental health profession.

"Sex offense specific": Relating to the problem of sexual offense behavior.

"Sexually violent person": As defined in Section 5 of the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act [725 ILCS 207/5].

"Supervising officer": The probation or parole officers are responsible for the behavioral monitoring of sex offenders.  In addition, any person employed by the Department of Human Services or by an entity that contracted with the Department of Human Services to supervise sexually violent persons on conditional release.

"SVP": Sexually violent person or persons, depending on the context.

"Treatment": Therapy, monitoring and supervision of a sex offender.