Hebephilia as a Sexual Disorder

Beier, Klaus M.; Amelung, Till; Kuhle, Laura F.; Grundmann, Dorit; Scherner, Gerold; Neutze, Janina

doi:10.1055/s-0034-1398960

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“…Sexual crime has been identified as a "silent-violent epidemic" for more than two decades (American Medical Association, 1995), with major organizations advocating for interventions before a crime has been committed via primary and secondary prevention initiatives (e.g., Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, 2011). Schemes that encourage men who are have (and are concerned about) inappropriate sexual thoughts about children to come forward for anonymous treatment and counseling, such as Project Prevention Dunkelfeld (Beier et al, 2009;Beier et al, 2016), have been found to be successful in preventing cases of sexual abuse (Beier et al, 2015).…”

Section: Sexual Crime As a Public Health Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes towards sexual offenders: What do we know, and why are they important?

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Hogue

Bartels

2017

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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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 discussion of their implications. Clinically, attitudes may be related to therapeutic climates and treatment outcomes and risk judgments, while in the social context, the views of the public about sexual offenders may play a key role in the reintegration of these offenders, and the political responses associated with sexual offending. Sexual crime is advocated as a public health issue, with attitudes towards the perpetrators of such offenses being of critical importance when trying to create a social environment within which to successfully reduce rates of sexual offending. In this article, the research evidence currently available in this area is reviewed. An analysis of the conceptualization and measurement of attitudes towards sexual offenders is provided, before the existing literature on the factors underlying such attitudes is explored. Following this, the malleability of attitudes towards sexual offenders is examined. The review concludes with some suggestions for future theoretical, empirical, and practical advancements in this important area.

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Section: Sexual Crime As a Public Health Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes towards sexual offenders: What do we know, and why are they important?

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Hogue

Bartels

2017

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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“…The Dunkelfeld Project aims to offer early intervention (via psychological and psychiatric treatment) in an attempt to prevent child sexual abuse before it occurs. Early evidence of the effectiveness of the Dunkelfeld Project comes from small-scale studies of the interventions that are offered, with data indicating reductions in the expression of offense-supportive cognitions (Amelung, Kuhle, Konrad, Pauls, & Beier, 2012), and improved sexual self-regulation (Beier et al, 2015).…”

Section: Progressive Responses To Sexual Offendingmentioning

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Applying moral foundations theory to understanding public views of sexual offending

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Harris

2016

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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Much research has examined the views held by citizens about sexual offenders and related policy responses. Although studies have extensively examined demographic correlates of such views, little attention has been paid to psychological mechanisms that underpin them. Gaining a deeper understanding of such mechanisms may ultimately prove useful for informing communication strategies around the problem of sexual violence. We propose the application of moral foundations theory as a means of exploring the roots of the current punitive consensus around sexual crime policy at the macro level, as well as individual variability in attitudes about sexual violence. Following an overview of the sexual offender policy landscape, and a description of MFT principles, we outline how this framework can help to explain both convergence and divergence in responses to sexual offending among members of the public. We also provide a series of testable hypotheses to stimulate further research in this area

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“…Applying a non-randomized waiting list control design, a treatment group and control group were assessed before and after a twelve-month treatment/waiting period, respectively. Withingroup and between-groups comparisons were conducted to evaluate treatment change (Beier et al 2015).…”

Section: First Results From the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld (Ppd)mentioning

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Proactive Strategies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and the Use of Child Abuse Images: Experiences from the German Dunkelfeld Project

Beier

2016

Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration

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The contribution describes a German prevention approach which aims at improving proactive strategies to protect children from sexual exploitation by online offenses, such as the consumption or distribution of child abuse images (so-called "child pornography"), and hands-on contact child sexual abuse. Prevention strategies include research on individuals at risk to commit first or persistent sexual offenses against children, at the same time offering preventive assessment and treatment. As it is acknowledged that many offenders against children remain undetected by legal authorities in the "Dunkelfeld" (literally "dark field") and are therefore not included in any official statistics, this program focuses on those who admit a longstanding sexual interest in prepubescent and/or early pubescent children, so-called pedophiles and hebephiles, self-motivated by the distress experienced due to their sexual preference (cf. www.dont-offend.org). It will be shown that these groups are reachable (given that they can rely on anonymity and the professional pledge of confidentiality) in order to improve the prevention of child sexual exploitation, because sexually deviant interests have been identified as a major risk factor for first or persistent sexual offending against children. Therefore, public health services have a real chance of encouraging the concerned persons to seek professional help before any kind of sexual offense against children is committed.

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Hebephilia as a Sexual Disorder

Cited by 34 publications

References 12 publications

Attitudes towards sexual offenders: What do we know, and why are they important?

Attitudes towards sexual offenders: What do we know, and why are they important?

Applying moral foundations theory to understanding public views of sexual offending

Proactive Strategies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and the Use of Child Abuse Images: Experiences from the German Dunkelfeld Project

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