the public" (Sample & Bray, 2003: 60).
             One study conducted is the treatment service for sex offenders and abusers who have intellectual disabilities (Lindsay et al., 2002). "With the advent of community care policies throughout the Western world, there has been a decrease in the provision of custodial care for people with intellectual disability" who have committed sex crimes (Lindsay et al., 2002: 167). Several researchers have looked at a relatively high incidence of sex offending in populations of offenders who are mentally handicapped. Lund (1990) is a researcher who found a doubling of the incidence of sex offending when comparing sentencing in 1973 with 1983 (Lindsay et al., 2002). Noble and Conley (1992) reported that "studies of offenders with intellectual disability in community programs report a low incidence of serious crimes
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