There are many different strategies available to community corrections officers to better supervise individual sex offenders with different needs in the community. Each offender is an individual and requires different types of personalized supervision and treatment. Electronic monitoring has allowed community corrections officers to monitor sex offenders in the community through personalized monitoring plans. Near real-time monitoring of high-risk offenders was made possible with active GPS, while low-risk offenders are supervised with passive GPS. Different treatment programs also constitute 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 needs treatment, but some are more extreme than others. Surgical, pharmaceutical and psychological treatments are all offered to offenders to assist them in their process of reintegration into the community. There are also state and federal mandates that notify communities of released offenders and require sex offenders to register in a national database. The combination of offender information and notification to the surrounding community helps relieve some of the monitoring work of community corrections officers. When a community becomes aware that a sex offender is living in their neighborhood, most people tend to keep their eyes peeled. With the help of more advanced monitoring tools, individual treatment programs, and statutory mandates, community corrections officials have many different strategies at their disposal to monitor sex offenders in the community. Effective monitoring of sex offenders released into the general public is a priority for co.... .. middle of paper ......tear sex offenders apart. Assessing Community Corrections Resources to Improve Law Enforcement Capabilities, 01-16. Retrieved from http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/pdf/IACPSexOffenderElecMonitoring.pdf Perkins, D., Hammond, S., Coles, D., & Bishopp, D. (1998). Review of sex offender treatment programs. 01-16. Retrieved from http://www.ramas.co.uk/report4.pdf Sturup, G. K. (1968). Treatment of sex offenders in Herstedvester Denmark: rapists. Supplement Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 204 5-62. Fedoroff JP, Wisner-Carlson R., Dean S. and Berlin FS (1992) Medroxyprogesterone acetate in the treatment of paraphillic sexual disorders. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 18, 109-123. Finn, PUS Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (1997). Notification to the Sex Offender Community. Retrieved from http://www.abtassociates.us/reports/sex-offender.pdf