There are many different strategies available to community corrections officers to best supervise individual sex offenders with different needs in the community. Each offender is an individual and requires individualized forms of supervision and different treatments. Electronic monitoring has allowed community corrections officers to monitor sex offenders in the community with individualized supervision plans. Near real-time monitoring of high-risk offenders has been made available with active GPS, while low-risk offenders are supervised with passive GPS. Different treatment programs are also a strategic tool to facilitate access and treatment for each offender. The term sex offender is a broad term that encompasses many different sex crimes. Every sex offender requires treatment, but some more extreme than others. Surgical, pharmaceutical and psychological treatments are all available to offenders to help them in their process of reintegration into the community. There have also been state and federal mandates notifying communities of released offenders and requiring sex offenders to register in a national database. The combination of information about offenders and notification to the surrounding community helps take some of the monitoring work off of community corrections officers. When a community is notified that a sex offender is living in its neighborhood, most people tend to keep their eyes open. With the help of more advanced monitoring tools, individual treatment programs, and statutory mandates, community corrections officials have many different strategies for monitoring sex offenders in the community. Effective supervision of sex offenders released to the general public is a community priority.... ...middle paper......torture of sex offenders. Assessing Community Correctional Facility Resources to Improve Law Enforcement Capabilities, 01-16. Retrieved from http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/pdf/IACPSexOffenderElecMonitoring.pdfPerkins, D., Hammond, S., Coles, D., & Bishopp, D. (1998). Review of sex offender treatment programs. 01-16. Retrieved from http://www.ramas.co.uk/report4.pdfSturup, G. K. (1968). Treatment of sex offenders in Herstedvester Denmark: rapists. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia Supplement, 204 5-62. Fedoroff JP, Wisner-Carlson R., Dean S. and Berlin FS (1992) Medroxy-Progesterone Acetate in the treatment of paraphilic sexual disorders. Offender Rehabilitation Journal. 18, 109-123.Finn, PUS Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (1997). Notify the sex offender community. Retrieved from http://www.abtassociates.us/reports/sex-offender.pdf