The last two decades have brought intense focus on identifying, containing, and managing
the burgeoning number of individuals who sexually offend. Similar to other emotional and …

Pharmacological agents have an important role in treating and reducing risk in some sexual
offenders, but also attract controversy, misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and opposition …

Medication interventions, either substantially lowering serum testosterone or treating axis I
comorbidities, show definite promise as a significant component of the management of …

This chapter talks about the pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders and its legal and
ethical aspects. For more than 40 years, paraphilic patients and sexual offenders have been …

This chapter provides an overview of the role of pharmacological treatment in the
management of mental and sexual disorders in sexual homicide offenders. Prevalence, the …

Background: Paraphilias are characterized by recurrent, intense, sexually arousing
fantasies, urges, or behaviors, over a period of≥ 6 months, generally involving nonhuman …

Reviews the current clinical evidence supporting antiandrogen vs serotonergic
pharmacotherapy for paraphilic sexual disorders and presents data on medication selection …

OBJECTIVE: To review the definition, sociology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, medicolegal
aspects, and pharmacologic treatment of sexual offenders, with emphasis on the …

Sex offenders represent a heterogeneous population. A subgroup of sex offenders suffers
from sexual disorders known in the sexological and psychiatric literature as paraphilic …

There are now more than 3 times more seriously mentally ill persons in American jails and
prisons than in hospitals. 1 Of note, Arizona and Nevada have almost 10 times more …