Improving the quality of sexual history disclosure on sex offenders: Emphasis on a polygraph examination. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The increasing recidivism rate of sex offenders indicates potential problems in existing recidivism programs. The present study was conducted to determine whether the polygraph examination is a useful technique to obtain a sex offender's concealed past ...
Sue Hyun Jung +7 more
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Development of a risk assessment tool for Japanese sex offenders: The Japanese Static‐99 [PDF]
Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, 2023 In Japan, sexual offending, especially paraphilic sexual offending, has become a major problem, and approximately 3000 people are arrested for frotteuristic and voyeuristic behavior each year.
Takayuki Harada +3 more
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Non-intimate Relationships and Psychopathic Interpersonal and Affective Deficits as Risk Factors for Criminal Career: A Comparison Between Sex Offenders and Other Offenders [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Sex-offenders are at risk of criminal recidivism. For the treatment to be truly effective, it must be individualized. For this purpose, an accurate assessment should focus on criminological, psychological, and psychopathological features.
Fabio Ferretti +9 more
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Psychological Characteristics of Sex Offenders [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction A significant problem for clinical judicial experts when issuing court opinions is the possibility that the assessed person may be simulating, as well as lack of examination tools that would increase the objectivity and reliability of the ...
W. Oronowicz-Jaśkowiak +1 more
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Community intervention programs for sex offenders: A systematic review [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Sexual violence is a phenomenon that negatively impacts the victims' physical and psychological health and well-being. Sex offenders tend not to take responsibility for their actions, have difficulties in emotion regulation and impulse control ...
Sofia Barros +13 more
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Pravo, 2017 This article focuses on juvenile sex offenders. The offered etiological research addresses the causes or reasons for the appearance of juvenile sexual delinquency and the circumstances referring to the appearance, development and maintenance of deviant ...
Jelena Lukavac
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Self-harm and suicidality among three subgroups of male sex offenders: results from an Australian prisoner cohort [PDF]
Health & Justice, 2021 Objective Prisoners complete suicide and self-harm more frequently than members of the community. Sex offenders have been found to be at greater risk of engaging in these behaviours.
Mathew Gullotta +7 more
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Pedophilic sex offenders are characterised by reduced GABA concentration in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 A pedophilic disorder is characterised by abnormal sexual urges towards prepubescent children. Child abusive behavior is frequently a result of lack of behavioral inhibition and current treatment options entail, next to suppressing unchangeable sexual ...
Inka Ristow +14 more
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Rapists and Child Abusers Share Low Levels in Executive Updating, but Do not in Fluid Reasoning [PDF]
European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2018 Research findings suggest that sex offenders show worse performance than the general population in neuropsychological tests. Nevertheless, moderators such as age of the victim, use of antisocial control groups, and characteristics of administered ...
Óscar Herrero +2 more
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The System of Corrective Interventions in the Sex Offender Population and the Proposed “Trident Statal Program” (TSP) in the Field of Italian Sex Crimes [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThe issue of effective treatments for individuals with a history of sexual offending has legal, social, economic, political, and clinical impacts. Studies conducted on the topic of evaluating treatment outcomes for sex offenders have examined both ...
Giulio Perrotta +4 more
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