Background Sexual offending is a legal construct that overlaps, but is not entirely congruent
with, clinical constructs of disorders of sexual preference. Sexual offending is both a social …

Child sexual abuse is a public health problem of global magnitude with profound and
negative consequences for the victims and society. Thus, psychological intervention with …

Although there is less continuity of sexual offending in the life course than stereotypes
suggest, treatment should lead to a further reduction of reoffending. Contrary to this aim, a …

Objective: The present study examined the relationship between legislative revisions
regarding sexual offenses and the release decisions and recidivism rates of individuals …

Child sexual abuse is associated with multiple and often severe consequences for people
who are affected by it. From the perspective of indicative prevention, the treatment of people …

In this paper we address issues raised by the talks Hanson and Rice gave at IATSO's 2010
conference in Oslo. Specifically they both indicated that in their views treatment for sexual …

Die empirische Bewährung von Behandlungsprogrammen von Straftätern (insbesondere
Sexualstraftätern) wird seit langem kritisch diskutiert. In diesem Kapitel geben wir einen …

Hintergrund: Das zentrale Wirkkriterium forensischer Psychotherapie besteht in der
Verringerung des Rückfallrisikos hinsichtlich neuerlicher Straftaten. In der vorliegenden …

Controversy remains about whether sex offenders can be treated effectively, as shown by
recent exchanges in this journal (Hickey, 2012; Ho and Ross, 2012; Mann et al., 2012) and …

This chapter first addresses the problems with punishment‐based strategies with sexual
offenders in order to demonstrate the inadequacy of this approach and turn to a …