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To Be or Not to Be Empathic: the Role of Empathy in Child Sexual Offending
Although treatment providers very often use empathy training in treatment for those who sexually offend, it is essential to further investigate the...
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Understanding Sexual Offending An evidence-based response to myths and misconceptions
Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins...
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Protecting Them, Protecting You: Tips and Cautions When Doing Research in Sexual Offending
Doing research in sexual offending might sound thrilling but it is also a troublesome topic that waves many emotions and entails some delicate...
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Why Sexual Offending?
Over the years, the societal construction of the sex offender has changed. This evolution has had an impact on the portrayal of perpetrators’...
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Risk Factors for Youth Offending and Recidivism
This chapter reviews knowledge about risk factors for juvenile delinquency and juvenile recidivism. In understanding “how and why individuals exceed...
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Co-offending and the Persistence of Violence: A Dynamic Analysis
ObjectivesPrevious research underscores the influence of prior violent co-offending on subsequent violent behavior, linking it to a social contagion...
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Criminal Careers of Domestic Sex Traffickers in the Netherlands: Distinguishing Different Offending Trajectories
Human trafficking, among which domestic sex trafficking, is often only understood from the perspective of the victim, since research on traffickers —...
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The Compounding Effect: How Co-Offending Exacerbates the Harm Caused by Violent Offenders
To what extent do violent offenders cause harm to victims when they act independently versus when they collaborate with others? Currently, it remains...
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Association of Health and Victimization with Discrete Group Membership in Offending Frequency: Results from a Sample of Taiwanese Male Prisoners
Health and victimization have been documented as the robust covariates for offending, but limited research examines the relationship among the three...
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Prevention
This chapter aims to explain the research underpinning the rights-based approach in the category of ‘Prevention’ rights as they relate to children in...
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Sexual Offending: An Elusive Phenomenon in Criminology ’s Blind Spot
Sexual offending is an important social problem with potentially dramatic and long-lasting consequences. It is a social phenomenon that leaves no one...
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The Relevance of Professional Organisations in the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Violence
Sexual abuse takes place in several forms, and is a serious public health problem that requires a multidisciplinary approach. Sharing evidence-based...
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The Construction of Sexual Offending as a Social Problem : A Historical Perspective
The chapter provides a recent historical perspective on sexual offending since the postwar era. This overview highlights that the social phenomena of...
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Applying a Criminal Career Approach to Expose Myths , Misconceptions, and Erroneous Conclusions About Sexual Offending
After nearly a century of research investigating the causes, nature, and extent of sexual violence, widespread myths, misconceptions, and erroneous...
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The Great Policy Gap: Toward More Proactive Sex Offending Research
Sexual offending is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. It encompasses a wide range of manifestations that can carry extremely harmful...
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Online Messaging as a Cybercrime Prevention Tool in the Post-pandemic Age
Cybercrime poses serious challenges for law enforcement. During the social upheaval witnessed in the years of the coronavirus pandemic, new...
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Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution
AbstractThinking about organised crime as an ecosystem is not only novel but also offers much potential to add to the theoretical and policy-based...
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Moving Forward in Offender-Oriented Prevention: The Stop It Now! Prevention Project from an International Perspective
The large numbers of victims and the extensive harmful effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) necessitate dedicated attention towards prevention...