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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Sexual offending"”.
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Understanding desistance from sexual offending
… the reasons why a group of men convicted of sexual offences against children desisted from further sexual offending. The research employed a qualitative methodology aimed at gaining a phenomenological understanding of participants' perceptions of the desistance process. A total of 32 …
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Adolescent sexual offending. Prevalence, risk factors and outcome.
… of this thesis is to explore the prevalence of sexually offending behaviour among female and male adolescents in Sweden. One aim is to identify potential risk factors associated with sexually offending behaviour and a further aim to examine the outcome in early adulthood for a sample of sexually …
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Fostering Connection and Healing: An Intervention Study to Understand Adolescent Sexual Offending Treatment Effects, Mechanisms, and Worldviews
The prevalence of child sexual abuse in Canada is an important social problem, with a significant portion of sexual offending charges against children and youth peers committed by adolescents or young adults under the age of 24 (Afifi et al., 2014; Gewirtz-Meydan & Finkelhor, 2020; Statistics …
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"Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency
… The analysis supports that for some types of offending school-level subculture is significant and that the "code of the hallway" does influence out-of-school behavior for some types of offending. Also, school-level subculture is more important in explaining male offending compared to female …
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A grounded theory study : of the role of interpersonal processes in community sexual offending group work programmes from a counselling psychology perspective
The effectiveness of Sexual Offending Treatment programmes has generally been measured through evaluating intervention content and reoffending rates. In response to the growing call to explore the role of therapeutic process in facilitating meaningful change on these programmes, this thesis …
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An exploration of adolescents' thoughts about their sexually abusive behaviour : a qualitative study
… adolescent sex offenders' thoughts about their sexuallyabusive behaviour and to understand their perspective of cognitive distortion using Interpretative Phenomenology qualitative methodology. Five participants convicted of indecent assault, attempted rape or rape were recruited from two sites …
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Self-Report Anxiety and Depression Ratings Among Adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparison of Individuals with and without a History of Sexual Offending
… disorder (ASD) who have been adjudicated for a sexual offense compared to adolescents with an ASD who are not adjudicated. The scores of 26 adolescent offenders diagnosed with an ASD were compared to the scores of 14 non-offending adolescents with an ASD on the following measures: The Behavioral …
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Sex offenders, sexuality, and social control: A case study in the social construction of a social problem
… first two panics involved the identification of sexual offenses, offenders, and the causes of such deviance, the failure of these two time periods to eradicate the problem of sexual offending has caused an evolution in the third sex crime panic from focusing on the nature of sexual offending to a …
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Parental Involvement in Family Therapy for Adolescents who Sexually Offend
Adolescents commit between 30% and 50% of the sexual offenses against young children in the United States. Adolescents who complete specialized treatment for sexual offending, including family therapy, have lower rates of sexual recidivism. Despite the evidence that including families in …
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The management of sexual offenders in the community in Northern Ireland
… key personnel, is to evaluate the management of sexual offenders in the community in Northern Ireland. More specifically, this involves a critical examination of responses to sexual offending, the registration of sexual offenders and the placement of sexual offenders in the community within a …
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Why would someone send me that?! Exploring the prevalence, contexts, motivations, and predictors of sending unsolicited sexual images
… of new ways to perpetrate non-consensual sexual acts, one being sending unsolicited sexual images (USIs). This thesis examined this underexplored act by examining the prevalence, contexts and motivations associated with, and predictors (i.e., personality, contact sexual offending, …
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The Cycle of Abuse for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities who Engage in Sexually Offending Behaviour
… disability (ID) have higher rates of childhood sexual abuse than other clinical groups, and the general population. Over the past 15 years, research has lent support to the theory of a cycle of abuse, which postulates a relationship or pattern between prior experience of sexual abuse and later …
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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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Differences in Offending Patterns between Adolescent Sex Offenders High or Low in Callous and Unemotional Traits
… traits who seem to show a more severe pattern of sexual offending. The current study attempts to test the importance of these traits by comparing adolescent sex offenders high or low on CU traits based on victim and offense characteristics, and offending history. A sample of 150 detained …
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Managing child sexual exploitation material offenders: an exploration of investigative process, offending practise and a paraphilic profiling methodology for users of peer-to-peer systems
… and convictions for the crime of online child sexual offending have risen steadily. While police investigation and associated management activities in this area have increased, the relationship that exists between online child sex offending, contact sexual offending and recidivism is unclear, …
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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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The utility of qualitative approaches in the investigation of the relationship between substance misuse and crime
… being apparent in the literature appertaining to sexual offending. Chapter 4 examines an intervention conducted with an alcoholic sex offender in treatment at a community drug and alcohol service. The intervention described enabled the client to identify pertinent risk factors (i.e. alcohol …
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Risk assessment of convicted child pornography offenders in Iceland 2000-2017
… in the last decade, yet less is known about CP offending than other types of sexual offenses against children. To decrease the likelihood of further sexual offending it is important to gain information on observed risk to better plan offender’s treatment and supervision. In this pilot study the …
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The crime-commission process of sexual offences on London trains (SOLT): offending in plain sight, not just at night
This thesis explores sexual offences that are committed on London trains, which has seen an increase over the past 3 years (BTP, 2018). This research aims to produce a detailed and comprehensive descriptive account of sexual offences on London trains (SOLT), utilising psychological and …
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