Over the past two decades, a large body of research on attitudes towards sexual offenders
has been conducted across a number of different contexts. However, there has been less …

Labeling a person by their past behavior or a criminal conviction is commonplace
throughout forensic and correctional psychology. Labels including 'offender'and 'sex …

With the possible exception of terrorists, sex offenders in the United States experience a
greater degree of punishment and restriction than any other offender group, nonviolent or …

Ex-offenders face barriers to community reintegration including negative attitudes held by
members of the public. This meta-analysis summarizes the extant research on the correlates …

Application of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) model in adult correctional research and
practice is well developed, but remains underway in the juvenile justice system. The RNR …

Emotionally fueled public responses to news of released sex offenders have the potential to
jeopardize the re-entry process, for example, hindering access to stable housing and …

The good lives model (GLM) has become an increasingly popular theoretical framework
underpinning sex offender treatment programs, and preliminary research suggests that the …

Research investigating attitudes toward sex offenders has failed to specify the gender of the
“sex offenders”. Given that most participants are unlikely to think of women as sex offenders …

Much research has examined the views held by citizens about sexual offenders and related
policy responses. Although studies have extensively examined demographic correlates of …

The media represents one of the main sources of public information about sexual offending.
However, the media sensationalises sexual crimes through its focus on exceptional cases …