The present study addressed the question of whether deviant sexual preferences for
children can be considered a taxon, utilizing data from a multimethod assessment battery …

Abstract The Multiphasic Sex Inventory (MSI; Nichols & Molinder, 1984) is a self-report
measure frequently used in the assessment of sex offenders. Scores on the MSI are often …

Pedophilia refers to the recurrent, intense sexual interest in prepubescent children who, by
definition, have not developed any secondary sex characteristics. Researchers have begun …

The present study examined the latent structure of pedophilic interest. Using data from
phallometric tests for pedophilic interest across four samples of offenders (ns= 805, 632 …

Abstract The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI; Seto & Lalumière, 2001), a brief
measure of sexual attraction to prepubescent children that is based on victim characteristics …

The authors examined the responses of adolescent sex offenders against children on a
phallometric test of pedophilic interests. Participants were 40 adolescent sex offenders …

Phallometric studies suggest that some adolescent sex offenders exhibit anomalous sexual
interests. However, there have been ethical and practical objections to the phallometric …

This study of 410 adult male sex offenders against children, using data from the Dynamic
Supervision Project (Hanson, Harris, Scott, & Helmus, 2007), examined the construct …

This study investigated whether being charged with a child pornography offense is a valid
diagnostic indicator of pedophilia, as represented by an index of phallometrically assessed …

The reliability of the notion that pedophilia is caused by sexual abuse in childhood was
explored by examining retrospective self-reports of 344 males. Included in the study were 77 …