Over the following four decades I would get to work with countless more individuals who sexually abused children or were worried that they might. Including the 305 men I worked with when managing Wolvercote Clinic residential assessment and treatment programme. There was, of course, a need to work out “why” they did what they did; but we started with “how” by utilising the simple but ingenious “four pre-conditions” model offered by David Finkelhor. Man by man we gained insights into their worlds - their thoughts; their planning (or absence of it); their “rewards” from the abuse; their regrets; their relationships; their futures; their risk.
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