Self-disclosure by victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) is critical to initiate legal and
therapeutic intervention. Unfortunately, research indicates that lengthy delays in disclosure …

We conducted an exploratory review of the current literature on child sexual abuse
disclosure in everyday contexts. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of relevant …

Public policy responses to child sexual abuse are dominated by interventions designed to
take effect only after offenders have already begun offending, and after children have …

In this study, the relationship between psychopathy and the perpetration of sexual homicide
was investigated. The official file descriptions of sexual homicides committed by 18 …

Adolescent males who sexually offended against prepubescent children were contrasted
with those who targeted pubescent and postpubescent females. As hypothesized, path …

The current study describes and examines the crime-commission process followed in child
sex offending. There are two major aims in this study. The first aim is to propose a script …

Objective: This paper tests hypotheses based on Garland and Dougher's (1990) formulation
of the “victim to victimizer” relationship which is a social learning theory etiological approach …

Abstract California Psychological Inventory scores from 112 adolescent male sexual
offenders aged 12–19 (M= 15.59, SD= 1.46) were examined. A cluster analysis of factor …

This expanded and updated Second Edition of Legal Issues in Child Abuse and Neglect
Practice offers a state-of-the-art exploration of what role the law can play in bettering the …

Animal abuse has been an acknowledged problem for centuries, but only within the past few
decades has scientific research provided evidence that the maltreatment of animals often …