Sexual Behavior Checklist

The Utility of Post-Conviction Polygraph Testing Among Sexual Offenders

“…Nine studies employed a single intervention group study design with no comparison group that assessed participants before and following a polygraph but did not follow-up after completion of the polygraph (English et al, 2000;Schenk et al, 2014;Van Arsdale et al, 2012;Bourke et al, 2014;Stovering, Nelson, & Hart., 2013;O'Connell, 1997;Emerick & Dutton., 1993;Buschman et al, 2009;English et al, 2003). Two studies explored selfreported accuracy and utility from a single intervention design (Kokish et al, 2005;Grubin & Madsen, 2006).…”

“…The most common test reported was the sexual history disclosure polygraph which was employed in six of the included studies (Emerick & Dutton, 1993;O'Connell, 1997;English et al, 2000;Van Arsdale et al, 2012;Heil, Ahlmeyer, & Simons, 2003;Buschman et al, 2009). The maintenance polygraph test was used in three studies (McGrath et al, 2007;Gannon et al, 2014;Grubin et al, 2004) and the specific issue test in two of the included studies (Schenk et al, 2014;Bourke et al, 2014).…”

“…Six studies included only offenders with convictions against children, some of which included juvenile offenders who had offended against peers or younger children (Schneck et al, 2014;Grubin et al, 2014;Van Arsdale et al, 2012;Bourke et al, 2014;Stovering, Nelson & Hart, 2013, Buschman et al, 2009). …”

“…Details of the sample characteristics in the reviewed studies are displayed in Table 1. Overall, the sample size across studies ranged from 25 (Buschman et al, 2009) to 635 (Gannon et al, 2014) and the age of participants spanned from 13-76 years. However, demographic data was not made available for all participants in three of the studies (Kokish et al 2005;Bourke et al, 2014;Cook et al, 2014).…”

“…All studies were carried out in the USA aside from five studies that were conducted in the United Kingdom (Grubin, 2010;Grubin & Madsen 2006;Grubin et al, 2004;Grubin et al, 2014;Gannon et al, 2014) and one conducted in the Netherlands (Buschman et al, 2009).…”