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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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Jeunes en difficulté et auteurs de violences sexuelles : comment les aider sans violence ?
Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté, 2011 Sexual violence committed by adolescents on younger children are usually supported in France by Justice and Health services. First, this article presents the most important questions shared by judicial and health professionals about this issue.
Jean-Pierre Minary +3 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disproportionate rates of sexual violence occur among university students, with rape culture and misconceptions about consent prevalent. To comprehensively examine rape myth beliefs among different student groups, 417 UK University students enrolled on courses in four distinct disciplinary areas; social sciences (n = 131), applied sciences (n =
Dominic Willmott +6 more
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2018 This article focuses on interviews with two Australian young adults (and their parents) who were placed on Victoria’s Sex Offender Register after being convicted of child pornography offences for non-consensually distributing intimate images. It examines
Laura Vitis
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The imposition of preventive sanctions on offenders—ranging from preventive detention to community supervision—generally requires that the offender is held to be “dangerous”: a legal “dangerousness criterion” must be met. This article shows that in Dutch criminal law, these dangerousness criteria are vague. They fail to define, or define in an
Max de Vries
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Sex offender treatment providers: registry.
, 1992 Directory of mental health professionals in Texas who meet the minimum requirements for training and experience regarding knowledge and experience with the sex offender ...
Texas. Council on Sex Offender Treatment.
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Iowa Sex Offender Treatment and Supervision Task Force Report to the Iowa General Assembly, January, 2011 [PDF]
, 2011 The Sex Offender Research Council was formed as a successor to the Sex Offender Treatment and Supervision Task Force, established to provide assistance to the General Assembly.
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Interpersonal potentially traumatic events (PTEs), including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, are common among forensic mental health patient populations, yet population‐level research examining their broader sociodemographic, forensic, and behavioural characteristics remains limited.
Bailey J. Thompson +3 more
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Attitudes Toward the Treatment of Sex Offenders: A SEM Analysis
Journal of Forensic Social Work, 2011 Evidence suggests that public attitudes toward sex offenders are often complex, which is partly due to the lack of sophisticated measures that capture different dimensions of individual attitudes.
Wesley T. Chruch, Fei Sun, Xiao Li
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Sex offender treatment providers: registry.
, 1994 Directory of mental health professionals in Texas who meet the minimum requirements for training and experience regarding knowledge and experience with the sex offender ...
Texas. Council on Sex Offender Treatment.
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