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Sentencing Females Convicted of Sex Offenses: Examining Measures of Perceived Dangerousness and the Decision to Incarcerate

Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2021
From media attention to legislative actions, individuals convicted of sex offenses are often perceived as dangerous and a threat to society. Previous research, however, has demonstrated that perceived dangerousness is gender-specific, often minimizing ...
Benjamin R. Gibbs, T. ten Bensel
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Race, Ethnicity, and Punishment for Federal Sex Offenses: Changing Composition in Child Pornography and Sex Abuse Cases and Temporal Disparity in Sentencing Over Time

Sexual abuse. A Journal of Research and Treatment, 2020
In response to several high-profile violent offenses against children over the past two decades, Congress has enacted several pieces of legislation aimed at increasing punishment for those convicted of federal sex offenses. Coinciding with these enhanced
R. Hartley   +2 more
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Punitive Attitudes Toward Individuals Convicted of Sex Offenses: A Vignette Study

Justice quarterly, 2019
The public holds stereotypical beliefs about sex crimes, its perpetrators, and its victims, which may influence punitive attitudes toward individuals convicted of sex offenses (ICSOs).
Kelly M. Socia   +2 more
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Development of a risk/treatment needs and progress protocol for juveniles with sex offenses.

Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2019
With the post-Gault trend toward the criminalization of the juvenile court, the demand for risk prediction assessment scales took on newfound importance. The past several decades of research have underscored the limitations of these scales.
Tamara Kang   +10 more
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Liberating Discretion: The Effect of Rape Myth Factors on Prosecutors’ Decisions to Charge Suspects in Penetrative and Non-Penetrative Sex Offenses

Justice quarterly, 2018
In sexual assault cases, prosecutorial charging decisions may be influenced by legal factors like offense seriousness and convictability and extralegal rape myths. We use data on sexual assaults in Los Angeles, to test for the effects of victim behavior,
Suzanne St. George, C. Spohn
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Sex Offenses and Sex Offenders

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1968
Sex and sex-related conduct is rigidly circum scribed by law in the United States, and rigorous penalties are provided for deviations from the limited forms of sexual expression (or choice of sexual partners) permitted. These laws reflect a puritanical sociosexual culture, strangled in taboos, but do not accurately depict either the incidence or modes
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The Concentration of Sex Offenses in British and Dutch Families

, 2015
It is well established in criminological research, that a small group of offenders is responsible for a large share of total crime (Fox & Tracy, 1988; Piquero, 2000).
S. Weijer   +3 more
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A beam of "chimeric" darkness: presence, interconnectedness, and transformation in the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient convicted of sex offenses.

Psychoanalytic Review, 2012
The paper puts forward the dimension created by analytic presence and the ensuing patient-analyst interconnectedness in the process of psychoanalytic treatment and change, particularly with more disturbed patients.
O. Eshel
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Autism spectrum disorder symptoms in juvenile suspects of sex offenses.

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2009
OBJECTIVE To investigate autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms in juvenile suspects of sex offenses. METHOD A group of 175 juvenile suspected sex offenders (all males, mean +/- SD age = 14.9 +/- 1.4 years) was compared with a matched healthy control ...
Lisette A. ’t Hart-Kerkhoffs   +5 more
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