All Outputs (13)

“I Mean Who Likes Pedophiles”; Psychological Assessments of Men Who Have Sexually Offended. The Assessees’ Experiences (2021)
Journal Article

Pre-sentence psychological assessments of men who have sexually offended can provide useful information regarding an individual’s pathway to offending, risk of recidivism, and treatment needs. The outcome of the assessment can be used in court and ha... Read More about “I Mean Who Likes Pedophiles”; Psychological Assessments of Men Who Have Sexually Offended. The Assessees’ Experiences.

Understanding the lived experience of British non-offending paedophiles (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Research into paedophilia mainly uses offender samples; thus, little is understood about non-offending paedophiles. The limited body of research has been conducted in North America or Europe whose health a... Read More about Understanding the lived experience of British non-offending paedophiles.

The Effect of Race and Gender on Attributions of Stalking (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 by the Southwestern Social Science Association Objective: This study is concerned with examining the impact of the extralegal factors of race and gender in attributions of stalking and motivation in examples of heterosexual, low-level stalking... Read More about The Effect of Race and Gender on Attributions of Stalking.

A quantitative analysis of attitudes toward pornography use in secure hospitals: sexual, violent and non-offenders (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose: To investigate the attitudes of staff members in secure hospitals, and the general population toward pornography use and their decision making regarding access to pornography. Methodology: A between participants design was used whereby 324... Read More about A quantitative analysis of attitudes toward pornography use in secure hospitals: sexual, violent and non-offenders.

Exploring pornography use in secure hospitals: a qualitative analysis (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose This research paper reports findings from a qualitative analysis which explored pornography use in secure hospitals. The purpose of this paper is to investigate what attitudes staff working in secure hospital have towards patients having acc... Read More about Exploring pornography use in secure hospitals: a qualitative analysis.

Forensic Staff Attitudes Toward Men Who Have Sexually Offended: A General Public Comparison (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives: To explore the attitudes towards men who have sexually offended (MSO) between the general public and professionals and paraprofessionals in forensic settings. Background: Existing research demonstrates a number of different factors that... Read More about Forensic Staff Attitudes Toward Men Who Have Sexually Offended: A General Public Comparison.

Delivering an intervention to a young person minimising his harmful sexual behaviour: a practice case study (2018)
Journal Article

Young perpetrators of harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) often minimise the severity of their offending. Whilst there have been mixed findings, the most recent literature suggests offence-specific minimisation increases the risk of sexual recidivism in h... Read More about Delivering an intervention to a young person minimising his harmful sexual behaviour: a practice case study.

The influence of contextual information regarding the breakdown of relationships and perpetrator-target sex composition on perceptions of relational stalking (2018)
Journal Article

The present study examines the influence of prior relationship (with contextual information regarding the breakdown of the relationship) and perpetrator-target sex composition on perceptions of relational stalking. The study employed an experimental... Read More about The influence of contextual information regarding the breakdown of relationships and perpetrator-target sex composition on perceptions of relational stalking.

Perceptions of sex offenders with intellectual disability: a comparison of forensic staff and the general public (2018)
Journal Article

Background. Existing literature suggests that individuals with intellectual disability are not always held accountable for their actions and forensic staff are unlikely to report their sexually harmful behaviour. Method. This research explores how... Read More about Perceptions of sex offenders with intellectual disability: a comparison of forensic staff and the general public.

A qualitative analysis of nonoffending partners’ experiences and perceptions following a psychoeducational group intervention (2017)
Journal Article

The present research is a qualitative study analysing therapeutic letters written by the nonoffending partners of men who have perpetrated child sexual abuse, after completion of a psychoeducational group intervention. It sought to identify themes re... Read More about A qualitative analysis of nonoffending partners’ experiences and perceptions following a psychoeducational group intervention.

Sexual offending hierarchies, personality attributions, and the clinical implications (2017)
Journal Article

Aims: the research examines sexual offending hierarchies constructed by the general public and forensic staff based on personal attitudes and perceived severity of offence. In addition, six sexual offence perpetrators are differentiated using the Fiv... Read More about Sexual offending hierarchies, personality attributions, and the clinical implications.

“I’m not homosexual or heterosexual, I’m paedosexual”: exploring sexual preference for children using interpretive phenomenology (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose: There is little research that examines the experiences of individuals who were assessed as having a sexual preference for children. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lived experience of five incarcerated participants who posses... Read More about “I’m not homosexual or heterosexual, I’m paedosexual”: exploring sexual preference for children using interpretive phenomenology.

The Precondition Model as a method for developing understanding of female contact and non-contact sex offending: a single case study (2016)
Journal Article

This research evaluates the use of an established model, typically used for understanding male sex offenders, to understand the behaviour of a female sex offender. The Finkelhor (1984) Precondition Model of offending is used to provide a rare opport... Read More about The Precondition Model as a method for developing understanding of female contact and non-contact sex offending: a single case study.