Intimate partner violence offenders often use victim-blaming attributions to explain their own violent behavior. These attributions represent an important challenge for intervention programs for intimatepartner violence offenders. The main objectives of this study were to analyze both the influence of social support and stressful life events on the psychological adjustment (self-esteem and depr...

EDUCATION AND POST-RELEASE EMPLOYMENT: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF OFFENDER PERCEPTIONS Frank R. Wood, Jr. Old Dominion University, 2016 Director: Dr. Melvina Sumter Employment is an essential component of the reintegration process for returning offenders. As one of the eight criminogenic needs, improving employment opportunities for returning offenders increases the ability of returning offenders ...

The aim of the study was investigation of specific forensic aspects in offenders involved in domestic homicide cases in regard to sociodemographic and psychosocial variables and modalities of the offense. The research was conducted at the Department of Forensic Psychiatry in Neuropsychiatric Hospital "Dr. Ivan Barbot" in Popovaca, Croatia. The sample in this study consisted of domestic homicide...

Sexual offenders are putatively at high risk of contracting and transmitting HIV as a result of their nonconsensual and coercive sexual practices. To identify and manage particular health and psychological needs among infected sexual offenders should be of high public interest. In this study, we aimed to compare incarcerated sexual offenders who reported with those that denied being HIV-positiv...

There is much concern about the extent to which risk assessment tools designed to predict recidivism are equally valid for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders. The current study compared Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal male sex offenders on items and total scores of the original and revised Static-99 and Static-2002 scales. The study included five independent Canadian samples with Static...

The importance of criminal recidivism among mentally ill offenders lies in resource allocation and community services for the mentally ill. It has been suggested that jails are used, in part, simply to house the mentally ill. The objective of this study is to determine whether mentally ill criminal offenders have higher rates of rearrest than non-mentally ill offenders. A sample of mentally ill...

Neuropsychological deficits in executive functions (EF) have been linked to antisocial behavior and considered to be cardinal to the onset and persistence of severe antisocial and aggressive behavior. However, when psychopathy is present, prior evidence suggests that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is unaffected leading to intact EF. Ninety-one male offenders with Antisocial Personality Diso...

BACKGROUND The management of sex offenders is a major public concern. Behavioural and pharmacological interventions have been used for many years and more recently cognitive behavioural based interventions have become popular around the world. Programmes designed for the general population have been modified for those sex offenders with learning disability, to address their cognitive deficits. ...

This paper explores whether the poor post-prisonemploylrient experiences of ex-offenders arise from general disadvantage as' lowskilled workers with little previous work experience, or from specific disadvantage from being ex-offenders. While it is difficult to mesh out the separate effects, a strong finding is that monthly post-prison employment experiences are most directly affected by outcom...

BACKGROUND Men with antisocial personality disorder show lifelong abnormalities in adaptive decision making guided by the weighing up of reward and punishment information. Among men with antisocial personality disorder, modification of the behaviour of those with additional diagnoses of psychopathy seems particularly resistant to punishment. METHODS We did a case-control functional MRI (fMRI)...