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Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper outlines a distributional approach to institutional analysis, reconceptualising institutions as distributions of knowledge and activity across people. We argue that institutionalisation and institutional change are best understood by focussing on actors with the requisite knowledge and motivation to keep institutional patterns going,
Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, Omar Lizardo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevention of Sexual Child Abuse: Preliminary Results From an Outpatient Therapy Program

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
In Germany, access to outpatient treatment services devoted to the prevention of (further) sexual offenses against minors and child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offenses is often limited.
Tamara S. N. Wild, Tamara S. N. Wild, Isabel Müller, Peter Fromberger, Kirsten Jordan, Lenka Klein, Jürgen L. Müller, Jürgen L. Müller   +7 more
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Clinical Models of Care for Adults With Intellectual Disabilities in Forensic Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 242-261, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Background People with intellectual disabilities (ID) and forensic histories face significant health inequalities, including reduced quality of life and prolonged stays in mental health hospitals. This is a global health issue, and there is an urgent need for evidence‐based specific forensic interventions, models of care and service models to ...
Alina Haines‐Delmont, Dineesha Georgeena Rajan, Sian Cooper, Faye McLoughlin, Sahrish Ali, Katie Goodall, Joy Duxbury, Faith Hurley, Camilla Lindekilde, Michaela Thomson, Rachel Whyte, Erica Hateley, Tella Lantta   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explanations of pedophilia: Review of empirical research [PDF]

, 1985
This article reviews empirical research to discover what support exists for theories that attempt to explain why adults become sexually interested in and involved with immature children.
Araji, Sharon, Finkelhor, David
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‘It can be an abuse, even though both have consented’: Swedish preschool practitioners' discussions about teaching (sexual) consent to preschoolers

Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 117-131, January 2026.
Abstract This article describes how (sexual) consent is constructed as an objective for teaching in Swedish preschool. An age‐critical analysis of focus‐group discussions with preschool practitioners shows how a didactic of consent is constructed and characterised: (1) The child should be trained to feel non‐ambivalence.
Magdalena Hulth
wiley   +1 more source

Win, Lose, or Draw: Using LGBTQ+ Legal History to Reassess Social Movement Outcomes

Law &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In 1992, Colorado's citizens enacted Amendment 2, a ballot initiative that prevented governmental entities from extending antidiscrimination protections to gays and lesbians. That same year, Oregon's voters rejected a similar measure. At first glance, it may seem that queer rights advocates experienced a loss in Colorado and a victory in ...
Marie‐Amélie George
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Beliefs about Pedophilia and the Attribution of Punishment for Child Sexual Abusers

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Psychologia-Paedagogia
Pedophilia is a mental illness which may or may not lead to sexual abuse against children. However, when thinking about people with pedophilic sexual interests, people often consider them abusers (even if they did not act against children and did not ...
Gabriela GROZA, Codruța Anamaria RÎNDAȘU   +1 more
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The internet and sexual offending: an international perspective [PDF]

, 2011
Although the sexual abuse of children is a long-standing problem that has received considerable scholarly attention, still little is understood about sex offenses that occur by means of, or are facilitated through, the Internet.
Egg, Rudolf, Mercado, Cynthia Calkins, Merdian, Hannah Lena   +2 more
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 505-519, December 2025.
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
wiley   +1 more source

Perception features of the sexual preference object in persons with pedophilia depending on the attitude to sexual desire

Психология и право, 2016
The article examines expert and diagnostic aspects of "ego-sintonic / ego-dystonic" types of attitudes to sexual desire and describes importance of studying the basis of desire in the context of sexual offenses against minors.
Dvoryanchikov N.V., Yushina N.N., Makarova T.E.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source