Incarcerated child molesters’ perceptions of themselves and others

Sex offending and social anxiety: A systematic review

“…Fiqia et al (1987) found sex offenders as a group were more socially anxious than violent offenders. Yet, contrary to these findings, three studies did not find a significant difference between CCSO and violent offenders (Horley, 1997;Nunes et al, 2012) or CCSO and ICSO (Marshall et al 2012). Overall, these studies have utilized a variety of psychometric measures and different methods to allocate participants to comparison groups.…”

“…Nunes' et al (2012) The studies' subgroups were defined by the following categories. Firstly, most studies defined samples mainly by offence type: CCSO versus rapists (Eher et al, 1999), or versus Internet child sex offenders (ICSO) (Marshall, O'Brien, Marshall, Booth & Davis, 2012), or versus incarcerated non-sex offenders (Horley, Quinsey & Jones, 1997;Nunes et al, 2012). In one study, Eher et al (1999), sex offenders as a group were also divided according to violence level (high vs. low) (Wong, Lumsden, Fenton & Fenwick;1994).…”

“…The participation rate was often not reported, and when it was reported the drop out at this stage was very low, at less than the 20% norm e.g. 1% -7.3% (Eher et al, 2003;Horley et al, 1997).…”

“…Two studies (Eher et al, 1999;Horley et al, 1997) were scored as "Can't say" in this regard, as they considered the number of incarcerations and level of violence; however the descriptive characteristics for sex offenders groups were reported as a group rather than subgroups.…”

“…Nunes' et al (2012) study 1 was the only one that reported effect size and confidence intervals. The effect sizes obtained by the other studies were calculated by the principle investigator, or sourced from Nunes' et al's (2012) study 2 meta-analysis, due to one study's means and standard deviations not being reported (Horley et al, 1997). Statistical analysis methods were appropriate and rated as 'yes' for all studies.…”