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Sex, Violence and the Female Sex Offender
A female sex offender is any female who engages in criminal sexual penetration, and/or criminal sexual contact with a minor and is charged with a criminal offense within a court of law (New Mexico Statutes and Court Rules, Unannotated, 2012) Early research purports that there is a high prevalence …
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Assessing Collateral Consequences Accompanying Sex Offender Registration
<p>Sex Offenders are often the most feared group of offenders. In response to this fear, sex offender registries were created as a method for monitoring convicted offenders and for providing communities with a sense of security by publicizing information about potential predators nearby. The …
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Perceptions Of Legal Policy And Sex Offender Treatment
<p>Sex offender policy, treatment, and public perception are greatly intertwined in the numerous policies in place regarding sex offenders. These policies tend to reflect the underlying perceptions and myths about sex offenders than the reality of sexual offenses and treatment. These perceptions …
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Initial Development of the Sex Offender Attitude Scale.
… and unwarranted negative attitudes toward sex offenders, little hope remains for released sex offenders to successfully reintegrate into society. Therefore, it is in the interest of society that we understand the nature of views of sex offenders so that attempts can be made to promote …
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Sex offender registry acts: Deterrence or moral panic?
<p>Sex offender registries were created as a means for law enforcement to track rapists and pedophiles to help quickly resolve sex cases. It evolved into a much larger system with many consequences. This evolution has been hastened by a moral panic based on bad facts and fueled by strong public …
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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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The Politics of Fear: The Dubious Logic Underlying Sex Offender Registration Statutes - Proposals for Restoring Measures of Judicial Discretion to Sex Offender Management
Existing sex offender management legislation generally represents an emotional response to a few well-publicized incidents involving child-victims. Federal and state legislative initiatives mandating sex offender registration for all defendants convicted of a sexually-oriented offense lack an …
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Treating Sex Offender Denial: Measuring Client Change and Contributing Therapeutic Factors
… to be a serious impediment to the most effective sex offender treatment. Research in support of this contention is limited, as is research into the specific content and process components which may reduce denial. Additionally, perhaps because sex offenders are so reviled by the public, soliciting …
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The Evaluation of Sharper Future: A Community-Based Sex Offender Treatment Program
… Abuse Services Coordinating Agency (SASCA) sex offender treatment program was conducted in order to ascertain whether the program is meeting its treatment goals as outlined by the SASCA contract and Sharper Future program goals. The participants of this evaluation were 248 past male Sharper …
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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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Further Assessment of the Psychometric Properties of the Sex Offender Attitude Scale
<p>Sex offenses in the United States are a major public health concern. Attitudes toward sex offenders are generally very negative and to be officially identified as a sex offender brings on collateral consequences that reduce incentives not to reoffend. The extent to which attitudes toward sex …
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Variables That Predict Burnout Among Sex Offender Treatment Providers: Work Setting, Gender, Work Hours
Psychological treatment of the sexual offender population continues to be an arduous task for therapists. There is evidence that many therapists will experience burnout at some point during their careers. Providing treatment in a burned out state can cause harm to the therapist, client, and …
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The effect of training on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sex offender treatment program
… on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sexual offender treatment program. Fifty-two juvenile court probation officers were trained to assess and identify adolescent sex offenders who met program referral criteria. Pre- and post-training tests were administered to measure the effect of …
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Registering Dangerous Strangers: Psychology and Justice in the Politics of the Sex Offender Registry
… to answer the question of how the category of sex offender has been produced to become the primary target in contemporary sex crime control. I examine the period from the 1960s through the 1990s, the period beginning with the rising awareness of child abuse and criminal and psychiatric patient …
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Working Towards Desistance: Canadian Public's Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders, Sex Offender Treatment, and Policy
Understanding public attitudes towards sex offenders and public endorsement of sex offender policy is essential to the development of successful and workable policies that reduce sexual recidivism. The current research examined Canadian attitudes towards sex offenders, support for sex offender …
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