Objective. Cognitive biases can impact experts' judgments and decisions. We offer a broad
descriptive model of how bias affects human judgment. Although studies have explored the …

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 …

Public policy responses to child sexual abuse are dominated by interventions designed to
take effect only after offenders have already begun offending, and after children have …

Actuarial risk assessment measures are often admitted in court, partly because strong
psychometric properties such as interrater agreement suggest that they increase reliability …

This article describes principles for developing risk category labels for criterion referenced
prediction measures, and demonstrates their utility by creating new risk categories for the …

Sex crimes provoke fear and anger among citizens, leading to the development of social
policies designed to prevent sexual violence. The most common policies passed in recent …

Through extensive consideration of current research, theory and practice, Treating Sexual
Offenders provides a guide to the assessment, treatment, and evaluation of a number of …

Many states and hundreds of local municipalities have passed zoning laws prohibiting sex
offenders from living within close proximity to schools, parks, playgrounds, day care centers …

Sadism is a personality trait characterised by the enjoyment of other people's pain or
suffering. In this narrative literature review, I provide an overview of the sadism research to …

This paper contains the author's report on pedophilia, submitted on June 2, 2008, to the
work group charged with revising the diagnoses concerning sexual and gender identity …