This article explores the variety of ways in which the Internet is used to facilitate the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and provides national incidence estimates for the number of arrests involving such technology-facilitated crimes in 2006. The National Juvenile Online Victimization Study is a nationally representative longitudinal study of more than 2,500 local, county, st...

The last three decades have seen many developments in Canadian prison libraries. This article follows the history of the libraries in federal Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) from the 1980s to the present, concentrating on the libraries in the Pacific Region. A chronological overview of the major legislative changes, reports, and events of the last thirty years highlights the increased prof...

The aim of this investigation was to define more clearly specific forensic-psychiatric characteristics of female murder or attempted murder perpetrators. The retrospective method applied was based on the comparison of the data from forensic-psychiatric assessments carried out in the Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce, Zagreb, from 1983 to 1997 (including 70 female and 7...

MURDERERS AND NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS: A COMPARISON OF LIFESTYLE, PAMPERING, AND EARLY RECOLLECTIONS by Richard A. Highland Alfred Adler outlined a theory of crime that suggests criminals suffer from a lack of social interest and have experienced parental pampering and childhood hyperactivity. He posited that these forces lead to criminality; however, his theory remains largely untested. A review ...

†This is the first of two articles in Advances by Rajan Darjee and Katharine Russell that discuss the clinical assessment and management of risk in sexual offenders. The next will appear in the January 2013 issue. Rarely a week goes by without a media story about the dangers posed by sexual offenders; no other group is subject to the same degree of societal fear, hatred and disgust, and these d...

This study tested predictions of Gray's Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) in subgroups of sex offenders and male non-offenders using an experimental choice task consisting of a reward and a non-reward phase. In addition, RST-related psychometric measures were used. Both experimental and psychometric data were of interest to determine whether sex offenders could be reliably differentiated f...

†This is the first of two articles in Advances by Rajan Darjee and Katharine Russell that discuss the clinical assessment and management of risk in sexual offenders. The next will appear in the January 2013 issue. Rarely a week goes by without a media story about the dangers posed by sexual offenders; no other group is subject to the same degree of societal fear, hatred and disgust, and these d...

An unresolved but clinically important issue in the literature on juvenile delinquency is to what extent juvenile sex offenders resemble non-sex offenders with respect to individual, familial, and environmental characteristics. The current article reviewed published studies (1995-2005) comparing sex offenders with non-sex offenders. The 17 articles meeting the inclusion criteria suggest that di...

Synchs-The tmportance of gender and race as critical vartables in cnmmal ~ustxe system processmg IS htghhghted ut thts article These processes influence women and minority ractai groups as vtctims and as offenders. The article addresses the situatton tn the Ututed States between 1970 and 1985 prtmarily, but the focus on gender and race has appbcatton to many other countries Foliowtng a bnef hts...

Recent attempts to validate the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991) as a measure of psychopathy in female offenders have been limited by a failure to examine laboratory correlates of the syndrome. We assessed 112 incarcerated women by using the PCL-R and examined their performance on a card perseveration task that has been used to demonstrate response perseveration in psycho...