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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Sex Offenders"”.
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The effects of cognitive distortions in sex offenders and non-sex offenders with mild learning disabilities
Cognitive distortions of sexual offenders with or without learning disabilities are considered to play a vital role in the etiology and maintenance of sexually deviant behaviour. This assumption has driven research to focus on investigating the cognitive content of distorted cognitions held by …
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Public perceptions of child sex offenders
Child sexual abuse is a profoundly challenging phenomenon that has a range of detrimental impacts on victims, their families, friends, and the community. In Australia, the sexual abuse of children is a pervasive social problem, public health concern, and egregious criminal offence. High prevalence …
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Supervising sex offenders in the community
… community supervision of men convicted of sexual offences, is the introduction and development of a new model; the Sex Offender Risk Management Approach (SORMA). Essentially, SORMA describes a system of multi-agency risk management of sexual offenders in the community, and in so doing, …
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SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF SEX OFFENDERS
… welfare will almost unavoidably be exposed to sexual trauma. This requires that social workers are prepared to understand and work with those who have been sexually abused, as well as the perpetrators of sex crimes. The purpose of this study was to explore social work students’ perceptions of …
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No Halos For Sex Offenders: An Examination Of The Effects Of Appearance And Gender On The Perception Of Sex Offenders
<p>For the last couple of decades, sex offenders have been stereotyped into being strangers to the victim and "dirty old men." However, recent research has shown that the public is no longer endorsing those stereotypes (Fuselier, Durham, & Wurtele, 2002; Levenson, Brannon, Fortney, & Baker, 2007). …
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Personality changes among sex offenders at San Quentin
… problem is, what personality changes occur in sex offenders at San Quentin Correctional Institution between the entrance Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the pre-parole Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.</p>
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Neuropsychological Functioning Among Violent and Nonviolent Sex Offenders
<p>Violent sex offenders, nonviolent sex offenders, violent non-sex offenders, and nonviolent non-sex offenders were compared on neuropsychological testing and on personality testing. A neuropsychological test battery and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2 (MMPI-2) were …
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Sex Offenders' Perceptions Of North Dakota's Sex Offender Policies
<p>Registered sex offenders in North Dakota were interviewed regarding their experiences with being on the registry. Results from the coded transcripts indicate that offenders felt the registry made finding housing and employment more difficult. Additionally, participants reported feeling the …
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Public Perceptions Regarding Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Management
… of the public's knowledge and perceptions on sex offenders, sex offenses, and sex offender management policies. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 282 students at East Tennessee State University. Along with the basic demographic variables, respondent's field of …
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Barriers to seeking psychological help among Iowa's registered sex offenders
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Post-traumatic stress disorder in previously abused male sex offenders
One hundred, primarily incarcerated, adult male sex offenders, were interviewed to determine the extent of their own experience of childhood sexual abuse and their incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Also investigated were the roles played by various aspects of sexual abuse in the …
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Personality characteristics, attitudes and perceptions of rape among incarcerated sex offenders
… was examined in a sample of incarcerated sex offenders. Previous surveys have shown that dispositional variables are determinants of sexual aggression. Research has also shown that situational variables, such as alcohol and anger, are recurrent proximal determinants of sexual aggression. …
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The uninvestigated factors: Dimensions of personality and psychopathology in sex offenders
… characteristics, psychopathology, and sexual offenses can contribute to developing more effective treatment interventions. Previous research with sex offenders has focused on general personality traits or inconsistently classified sex offenders based on psychopathology. It was …
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Treatment Providers' Perceptions of Treatment Effectiveness with Female Juvenile Sex Offenders
… how treatment providers working with juvenile sexual offenders perceive treatment effectiveness of current treatment modalities for juvenile female sexual offenders. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics from 2008, juvenile offenders, particularly juvenile female sexual …
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Juvenile Male Sex Offenders: The Impact Of Family Involvement In Treatment
… to the recidivism of adolescents who commit sexual crimes have received minimal attention in the literature. This study examined the impact of family involvement in treatment variables for adolescent male sex offenders as well as the relationships between family involvement and other …
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Collective action for the rights of sex offenders: evaluating social movement organizations
<p>Sex offender registration and community notification (SORN) policies have been instituted across the country to manage individuals in the community who have been convicted of a sex offense. A social movement, made up of registrants and their family members, has sprung up across the country to …
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Predicting Views of Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Policies Through Life Experiences.
<p>Sex Offender Registries and Community notification laws are in many ways derived from emotion. It is believed that one can predict views on these social policies by examining aspects of life experience due to Techniques of Neutralization and Labeling theories. Reliability and Factor analyses …
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Geospatial Analysis of Registered Sex Offenders: a case study from Pulaski County, Arkansas
… patterns of the residences of registered sex offenders in Pulaski County, Arkansas to determine the impact of state enforced residence restrictions. Density and clustering factors were used to identify census tracts of the study area with high and low concentrations of offenders. These …
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