Sex offenders and sex offending in the Cambridge study in delinquent development: prevalence, frequency, specialization, recidivism, and (dis)continuity over the life-course

Piquero, Alex R.; Farrington, David P.; Jennings, Wesley G.; Diamond, Brie; Craig, Jessica M.

doi:10.1080/0735648x.2012.688527

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“…Some rapists are versatile offenders, in the sense that their criminal behaviour is not restricted to sexual offences but may extend to theft, physical assault, and so on. This versatility may contribute to consolidating and stabilising the rapist's criminal career, since sexual and nonsexual crimes may interact reciprocally as a part of a more general, chronically deviant life style (Lussier, 2005;Piquero, Farrington, Jennings, Diamond, & Craig, 2012;Seto & Lalumière, 2010;Sewall, Krupp, & Lalumière, 2013;Sigre-leirós et al, 2016).…”

Section: Causes and Correlates Of Sex Offencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological treatment and therapeutic change in incarcerated rapists

Martínez-Catena¹,

Redondo

2017

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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Most Spanish prisons provide specialised treatment for incarcerated sex offenders, both rapists and child molesters. This treatment is a cognitive-behavioural intervention that has shown relative effectiveness in previous research. With regard to offenders' rehabilitation, recidivism assessments are necessary as a final measure of treatment effectiveness. However, the evaluation of recidivism by itself does not provide sufficient information on the treatment process and the specific effects that treated subjects could undergo. This paper aims to analyse the therapeutic effectiveness of psychological treatment provided to rapists (in general, males sentenced for committing a sexual offence against women). To this aim, a group of treated rapists (N = 153) serving a sentence in prison was analysed. Using a specially designed scale (PASSO), the global therapeutic change and ten specific variables (including assertiveness, readiness to change, cognitive distortions, impulsivity, etc.) were assessed. The within-subjects comparison showed that treated sex offenders improved, in therapeutic terms, globally as well as in most of the specific variables assessed (improvements not experimented by the control group). Also, different therapeutic subscales showed relevant associations between them. The findings regarding treatment effectiveness are discussed.

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Section: Causes and Correlates Of Sex Offencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological treatment and therapeutic change in incarcerated rapists

Martínez-Catena¹,

Redondo

2017

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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“…The most common offenses were burglary (62 offenders, 130 offenses) and theft of vehicles (62 offenders, 110 offenses). There were only 11 sex offenders and 14 sex offenses (see Piquero, Farrington, Jennings, Diamond, and Craig, 2012 ). Burglary and theft of vehicles were particularly common at age 16-20.…”

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Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age

Farrington¹,

Piquero²,

Jennings³

2013

SpringerBriefs in Criminology

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“…For instance, continuity rates from adolescence into young adulthood for sex offending range from 0 to 10% (Jennings et al, 2015;Piquero et al, 2012;Zimring et al, 2009Zimring et al, , 2007, and results from the current study suggest that drug use continuity from adolescence to late middle adulthood is approximately 45.4%. Despite the noticeable prevalence differences in crime-specific continuity across these studies, the findings that are mirrored in the current study are those that demonstrate that individuals who do evince this continuity exhibit the most serious and discernible profile of risk.…”

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The Intersections of Drug Use Continuity With Nonviolent Offending and Involvement in Violence Over the Life Course

Jennings

Farrington

Ttofi

et al. 2014

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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While there is much research on the continuity of drug use over the life course, these studies tend not to consider the intersections of drug use continuity with offending in general and violence in particular. The current study uses data from 411 South London males who were participants in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development to investigate these associations from adolescence to age 50. Results suggest that the prevalence of drug use continuity (e.g., drug use in adolescence and adulthood) is rather high (45.4%) and that variability in drug use is differentially related to nonviolent offending and involvement in violence specifically. In this vein, the most pronounced relationship surrounding differential involvement in drug use is the association between drug use continuity and nonviolent offending and violence. Individual and environmental risk factors are also relevant predictors of nonviolent offending and violence. Study limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.

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Sex offenders and sex offending in the Cambridge study in delinquent development: prevalence, frequency, specialization, recidivism, and (dis)continuity over the life-course

Cited by 60 publications

References 38 publications

Psychological treatment and therapeutic change in incarcerated rapists

Psychological treatment and therapeutic change in incarcerated rapists

Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age

The Intersections of Drug Use Continuity With Nonviolent Offending and Involvement in Violence Over the Life Course

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