Differences in Risk Scores among Intrafamilial and Extrafamilial Sexual Offenders

Differences in Risk Scores among Intrafamilial and Extrafamilial Sexual Offenders

IJEMHHR • Vol. 18, No. 2 • 2016 742 INTRODUCTION Adult sexual perpetration against children and child abuse is a critical public concern and social problem (Bonnar-Kidd, 2010; Calkins, et al., 2014; Whitaker, Lutzker & Shelley, 2005). Child Protective Services (CPS) substantiated approximately 62,936 child sexual abuse cases in 2012 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Service [USDHHS], 2012) w...

Reoffence Risk in Intrafamilial Child Sexual Offenders

ElEvatEd PsychoPathy scorEs among mixEd sExual offEndErs replication and Extension

Past research has revealed a relationship between sexual offending and psychopathy. Notably, offenders who sexually assault a minor as well as an adult (mixed offenders) score higher on the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) than child sex offenders, rapists, and nonsex offenders. Moreover, both PCL-R Factor 1 (interpersonal-affective traits) and PCL-R Factor 2 (impulsive-antisocial traits) ...

EXAMINING RISK FACTORS AMONG UNDETECTED SEXUAL OFFENDERS The Psychological Propensities of Risk in Undetected Sexual Offenders

Pathways to dissociation: intrafamilial versus extrafamilial trauma in juvenile delinquents.

Dissociation is postulated to occur as a function of particular types of child abuse or chronic abuse. Additionally, there is an ongoing controversy examining the perpetrator's relationship to the victim in the development of dissociation. In this study, reports of traumatic events experienced both in the family environment and in the community were used to examine the relationship between diss...