The paper reviews the published literature relating to the assessment of sexual preference
in child-sex offenders. Evaluated physiological techniques include penile plethysmography …

In many settings phallometric evaluations of sexual arousal are routinely conducted with
sexual offenders and these evaluation procedures also serve as research instruments …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Although there is strong meta-analytical evidence that deviant sexual interest in children is a
major risk factor for recidivism in child sex offenders, the assessment of deviant sexual …

Valid assessment of pedohebephilic interests (ie, sexual interest in children) is fundamental
to forensic clinical practice. Phallometric testing—which measures changes in penile …

This article provides a summary of current assessment and treatment approaches in North
America. With the advent of cognitive behavioral therapy in the early 1970s, programs for …

Penile plethysmography (PPG) is the gold standard for the assessment of sexual interests,
especially among sex offenders of children. Nonetheless, this method faces some ethical …

Choice-reaction time (CRT) is an experimental information-processing paradigm. Based on
an interference effect in visual attention, the CRT method has been shown to be suitable for …

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (1994) defines plethysmography as 'the recording of
the changes in the size of a [body] part as modified by the circulation of the blood in it'(p …

Paraphilias are defined in the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM) as recurrent and intense sexual arousal to atypical objects or …