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A National Examination of the Spatial Extent and Similarity of Offenders’ Activity Spaces Using Police Data

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
It is well established that offenders’ routine activity locations (nodes) shape their crime locations, but research examining the geography of offenders’ routine activity spaces has to date largely been limited to a few core nodes such as homes and prior
Sophie Curtis-Ham   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acknowledging the Stigmatized: Sex Offenders and Their Outlooks versus Women in Relationships with Incarcerated Men and Their Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

open access: yesThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2011
Offenders are a stigmatized group of individuals, making it difficult for society to proffer second chances so willingly. Furthermore, many women in relationships with offenders suffer the stigma that offenders themselves experience.
Caroline Womer
doaj   +1 more source

Offense related characteristics and psychosexual development of juvenile sex offenders

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2009
Objective: This article reports on offense related characteristics and the psychosexual development in subgroups of juvenile sex offenders as measured by the Global Assessment Instrument for Juvenile Sex Offenders (GAIJSO).
van Wijk Anton PH   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interventions for Learning Disabled Sex Offenders

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2005
The aim of this Campbell systematic review is to assess the efficacy of interventions with learning disabled sex offenders. Sex offending is of increasing public concern with calls for longer terms of imprisonment and closer supervision of such offenders
Lorraine Ashman, Lorna Duggan
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison of sex offenders and other types of offenders referred to intellectual disability forensic services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study compared 131 sex offenders with ID and 346 other types of offenders with ID using case file records. All the females in the study were non sexual offenders.
Bambrick, Marie   +8 more
core   +3 more sources

Counseling sex offenders and the importance of counselor self-care

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2019
Sex offender treatment is a process by which offenders learn special strategies for stopping abusive behavior and taking responsibility for harm done. Such mental health treatment is vital for offenders of sexual crimes.
Courtney T. Evans, Courtney Ward
doaj   +1 more source

Attitudes Toward the Treatment of Sex Offenders: A SEM Analysis

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Online Child Sexual Exploitation Material: A Comparison From Police Data on Men Charged With Child Sexual Exploitation Material Exclusively and Men Charged With Contact Child Sexual Abuse Exclusively

open access: yesSexual Offending, 2021
We do not know whether men who access Child Sexual Exploitation Material (CSEM) are contact child-sex offenders using technology - or a new and different type of child sex offender. This study compares men who were charged with Contact Child Sexual Abuse
Samuel J. Nicol   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Myspace, Yourspace, But Not Theirspace: The Constitutionality of Banning Sex Offenders From Social Networking Sites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In recent years there has been intense public pressure to enact increasingly restrictive and intrusive sex offender laws. The regulation of sex offenders has now moved online, where a growing amount of protected expression and activity occurs. The latest
Wynton, Jasmine S.
core   +2 more sources

Discursive Chains: How Prison Becomes Real and Chains Identity Movements For a Sex Offender

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020
Detainees enact a “self” that is faced with the prejudices and stereotypes of the crime for which that detainee was convicted. Of all inmates, sex offenders face the greatest risk of receiving social condemnation alongside their prison sentence.
Elena Faccio   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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