PROBLEM Parents are an important potential influence on the driving safety of their children. This study examined the relationship of parental driving record on male and female offspring's at-fault collision risk. METHOD Drivers aged 16-21 on the date of full licensure were selected from driver records and a matching process was used to identify putative parents in two-parent households. Pois...

Exhibitionists have traditionally been regarded as nuisance offenders. However, empirical studies show that some offenders can be highly recidivistic and can escalate to incidents of Hands-on sexual assault. The objective of this study was to investigate predictors of recidivism in exhibitionists and clarify the differences between Hands-on and Hands-off sexual recidivists. The hundred and twen...

To the Editor: Over an 8-year period (1993–2000) 405 delinquent youths were admitted to a juvenile correctional facility in Zaragoza City (Community of Aragón), Spain. Of these, 91.3% were boys and 55% were of ethnic minority (Gypsies). At the time of admission, the youths were between the ages of 13 and 17 years, with an average age of 15.6 years. All the adolescents were in custody because of...

Abstract Previous studies of the geographical and temporal features serial sex offenses are limited by small samples and/or areas, dated. We address a significant gap in literature investigating proximity crimes 402 stranger offenders UK. Periods incarceration were extracted from calculations giving more accurate picture series duration time elapsed between same series. A notable minority commi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Although self-regulatory depletion has a broad range of adverse consequences, recent research has established that it can yield prosocial outcomes under certain circumstances. The present experiment examined the interaction between depletion and offense severity on forgiveness of romantic offenses. Consistent with prior research, results revealed that depleted (vs. non-dep...

Participants wrote 2 narratives that described an incident in which they angered or hurt someone (offender) or in which someone angered or hurt them (victim) and the offense was forgiven or not forgiven. Victims portrayed the offense as continuing (open), and offenders portrayed the offense as over (closed). Forgiveness narratives portrayed offenses as closed and with positive outcomes; however...

The purpose of the study was to determine the clinical and demographic characteristics of elderly sexual offenders at a maximum-security forensic hospital. Charts of male elderly patients charged with sexual offenses were reviewed to obtain clinical and demographic data. The majority of sexual offenders had mood or psychotic disorders. Almost one third had a history of violent or assaultive beh...

Title of Dissertation: AN OUTCOME EVALUATION OF THE BRUNSWICK CORRECTIONAL CENTER SEX OFFENDER RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT (SORT) PROGRAM Deanna Maria Pérez, Ph.D., 2007 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Charles F. Wellford, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice There is much disagreement among clinicians, politicians, the general public, and researchers about how best to manage sex offender...

The objective was to assess the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in offenders who undergo forensic psychiatric evaluation (FPE), compare differences with regard to the prevalence of PTSD between immigrants and Swedes, compare psychiatric comorbidity and offenses between PTSD and non-PTSD patients, and compare various instruments and questionnaires when assessing the level of ...

Many countries in the 1970s introduced reforms in rape law with differing focus and extensiveness and along with these reforms, the descriptions of rape and sexual intercourse were broadened to include a series of sexual aggravated offenses such as the expansions of intercourse, which included oral and anal penetration in addition to vaginal penetration [1,2]. In England and Wales towards the l...