In this article, I describe the motivation-facilitation model of sexual offending, which identifies
the traits of paraphilia, high sex drive, and intense mating effort as primary motivations for …

Risk assessment and treatment for sexual offenders should focus on individual
characteristics associated with recidivism risk. Although it is possible to conduct risk …

Algorithms for predicting recidivism are commonly used to assess a criminal defendant's
likelihood of committing a crime. These predictions are used in pretrial, parole, and …

Typically, problems in offender management surface when offenders are considered for
release from an institution in which they were initially placed because of some violent …

A meta-analysis of 82 recidivism studies (1,620 findings from 29,450 sexual offenders)
identified deviant sexual preferences and antisocial orientation as the major predictors of …

The history of risk assessment in criminal justice has been written on several occasions
(Andrews & Bonta, 2003; Clements, 1996; Hollin, 2002). Here we assess progress since …

Introduction Sexual interest toward prepubescents and pubescents (pedophilia and
hebephilia) constitutes a major risk factor for child sexual abuse (CSA) and viewing of child …

This review compared the accuracy of various approaches to the prediction of recidivism
among sexual offenders. On the basis of a meta-analysis of 536 findings drawn from 118 …

The study compared the predictive accuracy of three sex offender risk-assessment
measures: the RRASOR (Hanson, 1997), Thornton's SACJ-Min (Grubin, 1998), and a new …

This paper represents a first attempt to provide an integrated framework to explain the onset,
development, and maintenance of sexual offending. According to the Integrated Theory of …