The current study claims that measures of sexual recidivism provide a distorted view of the
criminal activity of adult sex offenders. To address this important limitation, the criminal …

Several explanations have been proposed to explain the origins and the development of
rape and sexual aggression against women. For the most part, the first three generations of …

Purpose Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a broad conceptual framework in the
social sciences that have only recently been studied within criminology. The purpose of this …

Background Adverse childhood experiences are associated with multiple negative
behavioral outcomes and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is particularly damaging. There is …

Purpose There is a small but growing body of research on the role of psychopathy in
juvenile sex offending. This can be contrasted with a larger and growing body of research …

ABSTRACT A history of childhood sexual victimization (CSV) is one of the most commonly
examined factors in research on male adolescent sexual offending. Although CSV has been …

The history of interventions to reduce sexual offending have seen varying success,
concluding that they work for some people some of the time. This highlights the need for …

The current paper examined the association between childhood sexual victimization (CSV)
and constructs thought to be relevant for sexual offending in secondary analyses of three …

Currently, minimal research has been conducted worldwide on the phenomenon of child
sexual abuse in youth-oriented institutions, despite increasing number of accounts that are …

The law presumes that children who are sexually abused will experience long-term physical
and/or psychological harm. The research suggests that child sexual abuse can cause …