The Sexual Offender

Controversies in treatment: Should a sexual offender be allowed castration?

Child Sexual Abuse: Offender Characteristics and Modus Operandi

ISSN 0817-8542 ISBN 0 642 24211 9 There is no question that public awareness and concern about child sexual abuse has increased in Australia in recent years. In Queensland, for example, official statistics indicate that the rate of sexual offences reported to police doubled between 1994 and 1998 from about 92 per 100,000 to more than 190 per 100,000. The majority of these offences were committe...

Predicting relapse: a meta-analysis of sexual offender recidivism studies.

Evidence from 61 follow-up studies was examined to identify the factors most strongly related to recidivism among sexual offenders. On average, the sexual offense recidivism rate was low (13.4%; n = 23,393). There were, however, subgroups of offenders who recidivated at high rates. Sexual offense recidivism was best predicted by measures of sexual deviancy (e.g., deviant sexual preferences, pri...

Online child sexual exploitation: prevalence, process, and offender characteristics.

This review provides an overview of current knowledge and understanding of the process of sexual grooming and exploitation of children via the Internet. Specifically, the prevalence of online sexual grooming and exploitation is explored as well as associated challenges relating to the identification of its occurrence. This is complemented by a detailed outline and discussion of the process, bot...

The Female Offender

The appearance of this series, of which this work is the pioneer, marks an epoch in the history of English penal administration. Signs are not wanting that the English public are beginning to become aware of the work done with regard to the criminal in France and Italy. The lately published report of the Special Committee on English prisons directs attention to this work. It shows that in Engla...