Phallometric assessments designed to detect arousal to children: The responses of rapists and child molesters

J Looman, WL Marshall - Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and …, 2001 - Springer
The phallometric responses of child molesters and rapists were assessed using two
assessments of sexual arousal to children. Groups responded to both audiotaped depictions …

Sexual arousal in rapists

J Looman, WL Marshall - Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
This research explores the validity of phallometric assessments with rapists. The sexual
responses of a group of rapists on two assessments of sexual arousal to rape depiction are …

Sexual preference for child and aggressive stimuli: Comparison of rapists and child molesters using auditory and visual stimuli

MH Miner, MA West, DM Day - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1995 - Elsevier
154 Ss were tested using penile plethysmography as part of intake into a voluntary inpatient
sex offender treatment program. The testing protocol included slide stimuli of nude males …

Classification of child molesters by plethysmographic assessment of sexual arousal and a self-report measure of sexual preference

DR Laws, RK Hanson, CA Osborn… - Journal of …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study examined the extent to which the use of multiple measures of pedophilic
interest improved on the diagnostic accuracy of any single measure. Seventy-two child …

Salient victim suffering and the sexual responses of child molesters.

TC Chaplin, ME Rice, GT Harris - Journal of consulting and clinical …, 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
In phallometric testing, audiovisual stimuli in which the audio component depicted a child
victim's suffering described from the child's point of view were compared with similar …

Subjective versus objective measurements of deviant sexual arousal in clinical evaluations of alleged child molesters.

TW Haywood, LS Grossman… - … Assessment: A Journal of …, 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological assessments of sex offenders involve evaluating deviant sexual arousal. We
evaluated 24 male alleged child molesters and 23 normal control subjects, comparing self …

Sexual arousal in rapists as measured by two stimulus sets

J Looman - Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 2000 - Springer
Some uncertainty exists in the literature regarding the status of phallometric testing with
rapists. Although Quinsey and colleagues (1981) argue that rapists can be distinguished …

Validity of physiological measures of pedophilic sexual arousal in a sexual offender population: A critique of Hall, Proctor, and Nelson.

VL Quinsey, DR Laws - 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
It is argued that methodological problems in comparison by GC Hall et al (see record 1988-
20414-001) of phallometric data on child molesters and rapists include confounding of …

Phallometric testing with sexual offenders against female victims: Limits to its value

Y Fernandez - Forum on Corrections Research, 2002 - ojp.gov
Phallometric testing is measurement of male erectile responses during the presentation of
sexual and non-sexual stimuli. Two hundred eighty incest offenders, 138 extrafamilial child …

Assessment of sexual preferences in cases of alleged child sexual abuse

HE Barbaree, EJ Peacock - True And False Allegations Of Child …, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Phallometric assessment as an investigative tool in cases of allegations of child sexual
assault was examined. Currently, phallometric assessment is being used to assess …