Posts tagged with: Sex Offender Evaluation

Adolescence and The Law – Current Challenges

Adolescence and The Law – Current Challenges Offices are in Dallas Preston Hollow/Medical City Texas. (214) 431-2032 The new issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal *Current Directions in Psychological Science* is a special issue devoted to “The Teenage...

Criminals Victims of Abuse – How Often is The Criminal Abuser Truly an Abused Person?

HOW OFTEN IS THE CRIMINAL ABUSER TRULY AN ABUSED PERSON? Criminals Victims of Abuse? Constantly, I encounter the view that people become abusers because they were themselves abused. This is part of what has come to be an accepted theory...

Sexual Abuse Awareness

In the wake of recent high-profile sexual abuse cases, people are struggling to make sense of these situations and reconcile the allegations with their previously-held views of particular people, institutions, and the nature of child sexual abuse. Sexual abuse awareness...

Juvenile Sex Offenders

There is little question that sexual arousal in children is a powerful predictor of sexual recidivism among adult abusers (Hanson & Bussiere, 1998; Hanson & Morton-Bourgon, 2004). However, the clarity appears to end there for risk classification purposes. Arousal to...

Are Child Porn “Collectors” Dangerous?

Many child porn collectors come into treatment denying any contact offenses, however, in one case, after a short time admitted to offending a young boy whose mother did not press charges, with the proviso that he “get help.” He didn’t...