Assessing Sadism in Sexual Offenders Higgs, Tamsin; Lord, Alex; Stefanska, Ewa B ...
The Wiley Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders,
06/2020
Book Chapter
This chapter focuses on the assessment of forensically relevant sexual sadism. Assessing sadism is a complex and challenging task in the course of legal proceedings and in forensic‐clinical settings, ...given the specific contextual demands at the different stages of the criminal justice process. The same principles that apply generally to effective sexual offending behavior assessment and therapy, such as adopting a nonjudgmental and nonconfrontational style, are equally applicable in cases where sadistic motivation to offending behavior is suspected. The chapter reviews the relevance of sadism assessment to issues of recidivism risk and criminogenic treatment needs. In terms of treatment, J. M. W. Bradford argues that libidinal‐suppressant pharmacological treatments should only be used after careful psychosexual assessment to establish the nature and function of paraphilic or compulsive/hypersexual behaviors. In mild cases, he suggests that cognitive‐behavioral therapy/relapse prevention combined with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant medication is usually sufficient.
Rape and Other Sexual Offending Behaviors Jennings, Wesley G; Fox, Bryanna Hahn
The Handbook of Measurement Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice,
06/2016
Book Chapter
Sex offenders are often considered as a homogenous group of offenders when, in fact, there is considerable heterogeneity in this population. As such, with recognition of the relevance of measuring ...sex offending behavior, the purpose of this chapter is to provide a review of the various types and typologies of sex offenders, summarize the theoretical explanations devoted toward explaining sex offending, and highlight the empirical evidence on several criminal career dimensions as they relate to sex offending including specialization/versatility and general and sex recidivism. This chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications of these topics for sex offending policy.
As an often‐neglected group of people, nowhere are the principles of what works more relevant than for people with intellectual developmental disorder (IDD) who engage in inappropriate sexual ...behaviour (ISB). This chapter reviews the treatment of ISB by people with IDD who have completed intervention programmes utilizing psychometric data to demonstrate therapeutic outcome. The theory of counterfeit deviance continues to have relevance as a consideration for clinicians when assessing the nature of a sexual offence committed by a person with IDD. The difficulty in estimating the prevalence of people with IDD who engage in ISB is greater still and both William R. Lindsay and Leam A. Craig et al. have argued there is no conclusive evidence that there is a higher prevalence of sexual offending in men with IDD. G. Cohen and J. Harvey systematically reviewed the evidence base for adapted CBT‐based sex offender treatment programmes.
In this chapter, the authors talks about assessment processes for persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disorders (IDD) who have engaged in sexually offensive conduct, focusing largely on ...principles and practices associated with Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). Assessment of sexual offending behaviour utilizing the principles of ABA should follow the same process as behavioural assessment for other problematic behaviours, within a holistic comprehensive approach. Determining the cause(s) of a behaviour through a comprehensive functional behaviour assessment (FBA) that evaluates variables associated with challenging behaviours and designs treatment based on results, is considered best practice for persons with IDD. This assessment approach as traditionally applied has not typically been employed to assess and treat sexualized offending behaviour although these behaviours also serve functions that need to be considered in treatment. The authors outline the principles of effective interventions – relying mostly on the Andrews and Bonta RNR model.
This chapter contains sections titled:
Recidivism Rates among Female Sexual Offenders
Assessing Risk of Recidivism
Conducting the Assessment
Conclusion
References
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