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The Measurement of Success of a Therapy

The quantitative measure of a succesful therapy is necessary to consider the possibilities of different types of therapy. Usually, it is measured by the percentage of people which will have no further convictions after the therapy.

But this indicator is very uncertain. At first, we have very different subgroups of people send to a therapy:

true pedophiles,
sadists, which make sex with children because of the power difference.
people with contact problems with adults.
people which have made sex with children because there was no preferred adult partner.

Instead of the first, for all groups the ideal partner may be or is adult. This makes a successful therapy much more probable, especially in the last case.

The "input" of people which starts the therapy may be very different. It depends on such things like the court policy of sending pedophiles to therapy.
The result depends very much on the law.
Future convictions, future pedosexual relations and pedophilia are three very different things. From point of view of this parameter, teaching the pedophile to avoid persecution is a successful therapy. A therapy which teaches the pedophile not to perform his wishes can have the same success rate as the "ideal" therapy which makes the pedophile straight.
To kill the pedophile will be the most successful therapy.