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Accuracy of Sexually Violent Person Assessments of Juveniles Adjudicated for Sexual Offenses 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
This study reviewed the records of 198 juveniles who were committed to secured custody after being adjudicated delinquent for a sexually violent offense that qualified them for possible commitment und...
Quantifying the Relative Risk of Sex Offenders: Risk Ratios for Static-99R 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
Given the widespread use of empirical actuarial risk tools in corrections and forensic mental health, it is important that evaluators and decision makers understand how scores relate to recidivism ris...
Why Have All the Boys Gone? Gender Differences in Prosecution Acceptance of Child Sexual Abuse Cases 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
Cases of child sexual abuse (CSA) referred to the District Attorney (DA) are not necessarily accepted for prosecution. Two pilot studies sought to investigate whether there were gender differences in ...
Unraveling Sexual Associations in Contact and Noncontact Child Sex Offenders Using the Single Category - Implicit Association Test 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
Previous studies found associations between children and sex in child sex offenders (CSOs) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). We used a modification of this task, the Single Category–Implicit ...
An Exploration of Crossover Sexual Offending 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
Studies have produced equivocal findings regarding whether sex offenders are stable in their choice of victims. Indeed, it remains unclear whether a sex offender’s subsequent victims are typically of ...
Sex Offender Treatment Outcome, Actuarial Risk, and the Aging Sex Offender in Canadian Corrections: A Long-Term Follow-up 21 Jun 2013 | 02:41 am
The present study is an examination of sex offender treatment outcome in a large national cohort of Canadian Federally incarcerated sex offenders followed up an average of 11.7 years postrelease. A br...
Child Pornography and Likelihood of Contact Abuse: A Comparison Between Contact Child Sexual Offenders and Noncontact Offenders 21 Jun 2013 | 02:41 am
This study examined a sample of 120 adult males convicted of offences involving indecent images of children (IIOC); 60 had a previous contact child sexual offence (dual offenders) and 60 had no eviden...
Risk and Protective Factors for Recidivism Among Juveniles Who Have Offended Sexually 21 Jun 2013 | 02:41 am
Literature on risk factors for recidivism among juveniles who have sexually offended (JSOs) is limited. In addition, there have been no studies published concerning protective factors among this popul...
Does Volunteering for Sex Offender Treatment Matter? Using Propensity Score Analysis to Understand the Effects of Volunteerism and Treatment on Recidi... 21 Jun 2013 | 02:41 am
A common critique of program evaluations of prison-based sex offender treatment holds that the samples inherently show selection bias because the participants typically volunteer for treatment. To add...
A U.K. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Circles of Support and Accountability Interventions 25 Apr 2013 | 03:00 am
Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) aim to augment sex offender risk management at the point of community reentry by facilitating "Circles" of volunteers who provide support, guidance, and ad...
