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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Sexual Offender"”.
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"I'm better now": Sexual offender narratives of moral habilitation
… of daily ethical conduct. Treatment programs for sexual offenders are enterprises in moral habilitation that involve instilling participants with new values, beliefs, and practices. This research represents a person-centred ethnography that combined concepts of morality, stigma, selfhood, 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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Content Validation and Modification of the AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in the Schools for Use With Juvenile Sexual Offenders
… Association of University Women in the study of sexual harassment in the schools, for use in studying the behaviors of juvenile sexual offenders in schools. The original survey was modified to decrease bias in the questions and eliminate questions that did not pertain to information that may be …
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Correlates of Denial: Exploring the Function of Denial Among Men Who Commit Sexual Offences Against Children
Men who commit sexual offences against children may engage in denial and minimization that relates to an increased risk to reoffend or as an adaptive response in an adversarial environment. To better understand how and when denial may be related to risk, its function must first be understood. The …
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Surviving Probation: The Challenges Sexual Offenders are Faced with in Mainstream Society
"Society sees us [sexual offenders] as terrible people. Either lock us up or kill us. They don't want us in their community." Sexual offenders are seen as some of the most repulsive criminals through society's eyes. The term "sexual offender" encompasses many different types of people with regards …
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Surviving Probation: The Challenges Sexual Offenders are Faced with in Mainstream Society
"Society sees us [sexual offenders] as terrible people. Either lock us up or kill us. They don't want us in their community." Sexual offenders are seen as some of the most repulsive criminals through society's eyes. The term "sexual offender" encompasses many different types of people with regards …
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Sexual offending and sentencing: an investigation of the factors affecting sentencing decisions regarding perpetrators of sexual offences against children. In particular an investigation of the impact and usefulness clinical psychology reports have in judicial decisions about sentencing sexual offenders.
The sentencing of sexual offenders has become a national concern with public outcries about the injustice of the diversity of sentencing. Clinical Psychologists working in Forensic settings are increasingly involved in the treatment of child sexual offenders through consultation and therapeutic …
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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 assessment of risk in intellectually disabled sexual offenders.
… explored the application of risk assessment in sexual offenders with intellectual disabilities. A systematic review of the literature appraised the quality and methodology of research examining the predictive validity of risk assessment instruments, this highlighted a lack of research taking …
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The Occurrence of Maltreatment and Depression among Adjudicated Adolescent Sexual Offenders with High Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder
… HFA/AD who are adjudicated delinquent due to sexual offense and attend a State Residential Sexual Offender Program. The scores of 23 adolescent sexual offenders diagnosed with either HFA or AD were compared to 15 non-HFA/AD adolescent sexual offenders on the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire …
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Understanding Individuals who Access Sexualised Images of Children
The number of detected child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI) users has increased dramatically over the last decade (Babchishin, Hanson, & VanZuylen, 2014; Wolak, 2011). Despite the relevance to today’s society it still remains unclear what factors are associated with accessing CSAI. In particular, …
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"Sowing the Seeds for Change" A process evaluation of Te Kakano, the SAFE Programme for Maori men who have sexually offended against children
In the field of sexual offender treatment, there is limited literature on cultural influences and processes in therapy. Conventional treatment approaches for minority groups, including Maori in Aotearoa/ New Zealand, may be less effective if interventions are not culturally responsive. This thesis …
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Jointly modeling time-varying offending profiles and criminal career trajectories in a sample of sexual offenders : A multivariate approach to modelling criminal careers
… key topics of research in criminal careers of sexual offenders: explaining the observed bimodality of the age-crime curve for sexual offenders; determining whether rapists and child molesters follow well-separated, or overlapping criminal career paths; and assessing whether non-contact sexual …
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Re-examining typologies of sexually violent offenders
The current study assessed a classification of sexual offenders from combinations of crime scene evidence and case data. It sought to contribute a unique perspective to the sexual offender typology literature by utilizing data obtained from the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) …
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The criminal career profile : a measure of criminal careers
… reduction of criminal careers of serious, repeat offenders. Despite its conceptual simplicity, however, criminal career is often treated as having no depth or scope, for example, merely as the number of crimes or length of prison sentence. These indices often give no or little consideration to …
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Examining the Use of Hebephilia and Paraphilia Non-consent in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Evaluations
<p>Sexually violent predator (SVP) legislation requires, in part, that an individual has a mental abnormality which causes difficulty in controlling sexual behavior. Previous research has found paraphilia not otherwise specified (NOS) to be one of the most prevalent diagnoses proffered in SVP …
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Not just ‘old men in raincoats’: effectiveness of specialised community treatment programmes for sexually abusive children and youth in New Zealand
… study addresses the hitherto limited research on sexually abusive children and youths in New Zealand (NZ). It encompasses children (12 years or younger) and youths (13 to 19 years) referred to the three largest specialised community sexual offender treatment programmes in Auckland, Wellington, and …
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Abusadores sexuais de crianças: análise do perfil criminal e da repetição de abusos
El abuso sexual de niños y adolescentes es considerado por la OMS como un problema mundial (OMS, 2016) y de grandes proporciones. Cada año, 200 millones de niños sufren abusos sexuales (OMS, 2017). Las políticas públicas de afrontamiento adoptadas en Brasil, casi en su totalidad, están relacionadas …