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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"sex offenses"”.
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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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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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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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Trauma Responses, Abuse History, and Exposure to Violence as Risk Factors in Adolescent Sex and Non-Sex Offenders
… risk factors have been identified for adolescent sex offenders and non-sex offenders. Such risk factors include physical and/or sexual abuse, and exposure to community and/or domestic violence. Additionally, the presence of disinhibitive factors, such as substance use and exposure to violent or …
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Sex offenders, sexuality, and social control: A case study in the social construction of a social problem
<p>Legislation regarding sex offenses is often passed swiftly with little to no evaluation of the effectiveness of such policies on preventing recidivism and protecting the public. Further, little criticism is raised despite overwhelming evidence that sex offender registration and community …
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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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Effectiveness of Psychological Techniques in Increasing Deviant Sexual Fantasy Self-Disclosures
<p>The assessment of deviant sexual fantasy and interests is an important component in sex offender risk assessment and subsequent treatment planning. However, clinicians and researchers have long acknowledged that sex offenders often distort or underreport details related to their sex offenses, …
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Preventing Sexual Violence Where It Most Often Occurs: An Investigation of the Situational and Structural Components of Child Sexual Abuse in Residential Settings
<p>Given that sex offenders tend to perpetrate crimes against people they know (e.g., Greenfield, 1997) and first encounter victims in residential locations (Colombino, Mercado, Levenson, & Jeglic, 2011), it is important that research examine the circumstances of sexual offenses within residential …
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Estimating the Impacts of SORNA in Pennsylvania: The Potential Consequences of Including Juveniles
The federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA; 2006) established a uniform, offense-based registration system for sex offenders age 14 and older. The legislation created a hierarchical, three-tier classification scheme in which convictions of the most severe sex offenses result …
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Cognitions and Anger in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Sexual Trauma
Military sexual trauma affects both males and females in the military. Treatment for PTSD from MST follows from clinical trials of therapies among sexual trauma victims. However, research suggests that MST may be different from other traumatic events in the severity and manifestation of PTSD …
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The Role of Cognitive Processing Therapy in Treating Post Traumatic Cognitions and Symptoms Associated with Military Sexual Trauma
BACKGROUND: Military Sexual Trauma (MST) is psychological trauma that results from sexual assault while in the military service. One common anxiety disorder following MST is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Negative cognitions about the event, the self, and the world are hypothesized to be …
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Aggregate Sexual Trauma Load, Quality of Life, and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Veterans with Military and Civilian Sexual Trauma
Over the last two decades, Military Sexual Trauma (MST) has received growing national attention. Among veterans, approximately 24% of women and 1% of men have experienced MST. Veterans with MST are particularly at-risk for a variety of mental health concerns, including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder …
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The Impact of Cognitive Processing Therapy On Quality of Life and Healthcare Use in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Due to Military Sexual Trauma
BACKGROUND: Military Sexual Trauma (MST) is a psychological trauma that resulted from a physical assault of a sexual nature, battery of a sexual nature, or sexual harassment (U.S. Code (1720D of Title 38)). Research indicates that MST is associated with increased likelihood of developing …
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Identifying Trauma Factors That Predict Suicide Specific Helplessness in Female Veterans with Chronic PTSD Resulting from Military Sexual Trauma
… stress disorder (PTSD), resulting from Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and depressive symptoms to suicide specific hopelessness. It also examines specifically which of the PTSD symptom clusters is associated with this type of hopelessness along with the interaction of PTSD symptoms and …
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The Effects of Depression on Hypertension in Females with Military Sexual Trauma (MST)-Related PTSD
… the likelihood of hypertension. Military sexual trauma (MST) is also associated with greater psychiatric and cardiovascular symptom severity. Comorbid depression and PTSD have an established relationship with hypertension; however, this association has yet to be studied in female veterans …
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Improving Understanding of Cognitive Processing Therapy: Patterns and Predictors of Symptom Change
Survivors of military sexual trauma (MST) are more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than survivors of combat and other sexual traumas. Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) has been identified as one of the most effective PTSD treatments, and is the only treatment validated for …
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Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Mediators of Therapeutic Expectations for Treating PTSD Related to Military Sexual Trauma
PTSD due to military sexual trauma affects both male and female Veterans, and Veterans with MST-related PTSD contend with a host of physical, emotional, and cognitive sequelae. Evidence-based treatments for MST-related PTSD broadly focus on reducing symptoms by increased exposure and/or emotional …
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Unwanted Sexual Experience: An Investigation of Emotion and Physiology
The statistics on the prevalence of sexual abuse are varied and alarmingly large. Rojas and Kinder (2007) showed that a little less than 30% of males stated that they had been sexually abused while a little over 30% of females reported being sexually abused. The purpose of this study is to obtain …
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Ipsative Score Distortion on Affinity 2.0
… 2.0, a relatively new instrument for assessing sexual interest. Using a sample of 146 non-offending, heterosexual females, this study examined the characteristics of distorted ipsative score profiles and attempted to develop an algorithm to identify such distortions. A method was developed for …
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