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Men who molest their sexually immature daughters: is a special explanation required?
Marnie E. Rice,Grant T. Harris +1 more
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The father-daughter molesters exhibited an average absolute phallometric preference for prepubertal children and had a violent recidivism rate of 22% in a follow-up of less than 5 years.Abstract:
Child molesters who target their own children have been described as low risk and not pedophilic. Men who had molested a daughter or stepdaughter (n = 82) were compared to 102 molesters whose only female victims were extrafamilial. Men who offended against their own daughters had less deviant sexual age preferences and were less likely to commit new violent and sexual offenses. However, the father-daughter molesters exhibited an average absolute phallometric preference for prepubertal children and had a violent recidivism rate of 22% in a follow-up of less than 5 years. Actuarial risk assessment instruments (the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide and the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide; V. L. Quinsey, G. T. Harris, M. E. Rice, and C. A. Cormier, 1998) worked as well for intrafamilial child molesters as for other sex offenders.read more
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What is so special about male adolescent sexual offending? A review and test of explanations through meta-analysis.
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A comparative study of violence risk assessment tools: a systematic review and metaregression analysis of 68 studies involving 25,980 participants.
TL;DR: A tool designed to detect violence risk in juveniles, the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), produced the highest rates of predictive validity, while an instrument used to identify adults at risk for general offending, the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), and a personality scale commonly used for the purposes of risk assessment produced the lowest.
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Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
TL;DR: Seto et al. as mentioned in this paper discussed the relationship between pedophilia and sexual offending against children, and how to assess risk to sexually offend and what do we know about intervention and prevention to reduce the occurrence of sexual offenses against children.
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A multisite comparison of actuarial risk instruments for sex offenders.
Grant T. Harris,Marnie E. Rice,Vernon L. Quinsey,Martin L. Lalumière,Douglas P. Boer,Carol Lang +5 more
TL;DR: Survival analyses revealed that those offenders high in both psychopathy and sexual deviance were an especially high-risk group, and predictive accuracy was higher for child molesters than for rapists.
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