An Exploratory Study of Five Hundred Sex Offenders

Attachment Theory Applied to Juvenile Sex Offending

“…As adults, sex offenders have marked difficulty with intimate relationships (Panton, 1978;Steidman et al, 1994) and struggle to relate with females (Fisher & Howells, 1970;Gcbhard, Gagnon, Pomeroy, & Christenson, 1965;Hammer & Glueck, 1957;Mohr, Turner, & Jerry, 1964;Pacht & Cowden, 1974), which also reveals difficulty with intimacy (Marshall, 1989a . Ainsworth et al (1978) and Fceney and Noller (1990) have noted that individuals with this attachment style tend to avoid and have difficulties in intimate relationships as adults.…”

Counseling Adult Sex Offenders: Unique Challenges and Treatment Paradigms

“…In reviewing the literature, the reader becomes acutely aware of the reference to male sex offenders. Pacht and Cowden (1974) conducted a study of 500 sex offenders, all of whom were male. Finkelhor (1984) cited research that indicates "as many as 95% of adults who victimize female children and 80% of adults who victimize male children may be male" (p. 12).…”

“Profile” analysis of the personality characteristics of child molesters using the MMPI‐2

“…Research examining the differences between child sex abusers and non-abusers has generally found significant differences between the two groups on personality measures (Erickson, Luxenburg, Walbek, & Seely, 1987;Howells, 1981;Wilson & Cox, 1983), physiological responses to auditory scripts of sexual scenarios with children or pictures of children (Atwood & Howell, 1971;Avery-Clark & Laws, 1984;Freund & Langevin, 1976;Kilmann, Sabalis, Gearing, Bukstel, & Scovern, 1982;Quinsey, Chaplin, & Carrigan, 1980), demographic variables (Pacht & Cowden, 1974), and attitudes toward children (Wormith, 1986). However, the validity of these procedures to identify suspected child molesters has been questioned (Hall, Proctor, & Nelson, 1988).…”