Risk assessment and treatment for sexual offenders should focus on individual
characteristics associated with recidivism risk. Although it is possible to conduct risk …

We tested special and general explanations of male adolescent sexual offending by
conducting a meta-analysis of 59 independent studies comparing male adolescent sex …

Typically, problems in offender management surface when offenders are considered for
release from an institution in which they were initially placed because of some violent …

Consistent evidence exists for sexual interest in children in nonclinical/nonforensic male
populations. However, prevalences for community men's self-reported sexual interest in …

OBJECTIVE: The sexually abused–sexual abuser hypothesis states there is a specific
relationship between sexual abuse history and sexual offending, such that individuals who …

In this article, I return to the idea that pedophilia, a sexual interest in prepubescent children,
can be considered a sexual orientation for age, in conjunction with the much more widely …

In this study, we developed a structured risk checklist, the Child Pornography Offender Risk
Tool (CPORT), to predict any sexual recidivism among adult male offenders with a …

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 …

Pedophilia is defined as a sexual interest in prepubescent children. It is empirically linked
with sexual offending against children: Child pornography offenders and sex offenders with …

Clinicians routinely administer Hare's (2003) Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL-R) to
sex offenders and report PCL-R scores as meaningful predictors of recidivism risk. Although …