This study examined how perceptions of underlying offender motives affect victims’ emotional and behavioral reactions toward their offender. Perceived offender motives of malice and greed were embedded in a cognition–emotion–behavior model based on theories of attribution, forgiveness and revenge, and tested in the context of social undermining. Findings suggested that victims distinguished bet...

Victim-offender mediation has been considered a highly valued educational measure in the field of restorative justice, but which is its real impact on youth recidivism from an evidence-based perspective? The aim this study was to examine effect type intervention Spanish juvenile offenders assigned two interventions (N = 104): victim-offender (VOM) and community service (CS). Youth were ag...

There is a growing body of research on sexually motivated online communication with minors that has been variously described as luring, grooming and solicitation. Evidence from US studies would suggest an increase in aggressive sexual solicitations, with adolescent girls being more likely to be targeted. Existing research has involved adolescent as well as offender populations, and has largely ...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 R I. The Importance of Public Truth-Telling and Acceptance of Responsibility to Victim Healing and Community Norm Change: Social and Psychological Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 R A. Benefits to Individual Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32...

In response to the historically fragmented efforts to manage sex offenders within the criminal justice system and treatment community, it has been suggested that goals of offender accountability and community safety can be better attained through a more comprehensive, coordinated, and systemic approach. Anchored by a series of fundamental principles, the comprehensive approach to sex offender m...

Some child molesters abuse children of both genders. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between gender crossover and victim age. The authors hypothesized that offenders who molested children of both genders would be more likely to have very young victims and that offenders who molested very young children would be more likely to abuse children of both sexes than offenders...

OBJECTIVE A hospital based intentional injury surveillance system for youth (aged 3-18) was compared with other publicly available sources of information on youth violence. The comparison addressed whether locally conducted surveillance provides data that are sufficiently more complete, detailed, and timely that clinicians and public health practitioners interested in youth violence prevention ...

The increased availability of information technologies has enabled law enforcement agencies to compile databases with detailed information about major felonies. Machine learning techniques can utilize these databases to produce decision-aid tools to support police investigations. This paper presents a methodology for obtaining a Bayesian network (BN) model of offender behavior from a database o...