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Relative Impact of Underreporting and Desistance on the Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sexual recidivism rates based on arrests or convictions underestimate actual reoffending due to underreporting. A previous Monte Carlo simulation estimated actual recidivism rates under various reporting and conviction assumptions but did not account for desistance—the decreasing likelihood of reoffending over time.
Nicholas Scurich, Richard S. John
wiley   +1 more source

Clinician responses to sexual abuse allegations

open access: hybrid, 1993
Helene Jackson, Ronald L. Nuttall
openalex   +1 more source

Pareto in Prison

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pareto principle is based on the concept that roughly 80% of outcomes are generated by 20% of inputs, efforts, or contributors within a group. Using a national sample of U.S. prison inmates, we examined various percentile rankings of self‐reported institutional misconduct to determine how much disorder is created behind bars by the most ...
Mark A. Morgan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Sexually Abused Child

open access: bronze, 1993
Astrid Heger, S. Jean Emans
openalex   +1 more source

Vaginal Gonococcal Cultures in Sexual Abuse Evaluations: Evaluation of Selective Criteria for Preteenaged Girls [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1997
David L. Ingram   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Bias in Sentencing Men for Sexual Offenses Against Minors: Male Victims Bring More Punitive Sentences Than Female Victims

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior theoretical and empirical research examining the influence of sex on sentencing has been primarily concerned with the sex of the offender, as opposed to the victim. The present study drew on a convenience sample of males (n = 1190) in state and federal correctional facilities across the country, examining minimum sentences in relation to
Shawn M. Rolfe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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