The Childhood Risk Factors of Adolescent‐Onset and Adult‐Onset of Sex Offending

Lussier, Patrick; Blokland, Arjan; Mathesius, Jeff; Pardini, Dustin A.; Loeber, Rolf

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“…Data from the 2327 men who participated in the surveys were combined into one dataset. 1 There were 213 men that participated in more than one of the surveys. When this occurred, the data from the earliest survey was used to capture the characteristics of the sample at the first time point of testing and to ensure equality in crosssectional measurement independent of changes over time (in terms of demographics, health, and criminal careers).…”

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“…Sex offenders have been studied extensively by researchers from disciplines including criminology, psychology, and psychiatry. The focus of that research includes describing demographic information [1], criminal careers [2] including recidivism, psychological and psychiatric aspects [3], risk assessment, and the management and treatment of sex offenders [4].…”

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Implications of sex offender classification on reporting demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers: results from an Australian jurisdiction

Gullotta

Greenberg

Adily

et al. 2020

BMC Med Res Methodol

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Background: Cross-sectional and retrospective offence data are often used to classify sex offenders in epidemiological and survey research, but little empirical evidence exists regarding the practical implications of this for applied research. This study describes the classification of sex offenders from a cohort of prisoners recruited as part of an Australian inmate health survey and the implications for reporting results. Methods: Data-linkage was used to join the New South Wales (NSW) Inmate Health Surveys to the states reoffending database to identify men with histories of sexual offending. Sex offenders were classified into men who sexually offended against children only (ChildSOs), against adults only (AdultSOs), and men who sexually offended against both children and adults (Age-PolySOs). Results: Using historical offending data rather than the current offence information only, an additional 35.4% of men with histories of sexual offences were identified. Differences were found between the three sex offender subgroups in terms of demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers. Age-PolySOs reported higher educational attainment, were less likely to report being self-employed, single marital status, and having children. Half the ChildSOs self-reported a mental health issue and half of the ChildSOs and Age-PolySOs reported four or more chronic health conditions. Age-PolySOs were older than the other sex offender groups when committing their first non-sexual, non-violent crime (M = 43.2 years, SD = 13.8); violent crime (M = 39.5 years, SD = 11.1); and sexual crime (M = 47.8 years, SD = 11.2). Age-PolySOs also committed more sexual offences (M = 5.91, SD = 11.2) compared to those who only offended against one victim age group. Conclusion: These findings suggested that historical offending records should be used to more accurately identify sex offender subgroups and that differences in demographic, health, and criminal careers exist for the different sex offender subgroups.

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Implications of sex offender classification on reporting demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers: results from an Australian jurisdiction

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Greenberg

Adily

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BMC Med Res Methodol

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“…At the turn of the millennium, the growing influence of comprehensive pseudodevelopmental and developmental models on the scientific community, the introduction of longitudinal research and studies, coupled with the influential work of developmental criminology/psychopathology and the life course perspective, all lead to the gradual emergence of a fourth generation of research and theorizing in the area of sexual aggression. This generation of research, still in its infancy, primarily focuses on describing the development of rape and sexual aggression against women as well as identifying the risk and protective factors across different life and developmental stages (e.g., Abbey & McAuslan, 2004;Malamuth, Linz, Heavey, Barnes & Acker, 1995;Lussier & Blokland, 2014;Lussier, Blokland, Mathesius, Pardini, & Loeber, 2015a;Zimring et al, 2007Zimring et al, , 2009.…”

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“…Similarly, key concepts ofMalamuth's confluencemodel (Malamuth et al, 1991) first applied to explain nonsexual and sexual aggression committed by young adults were later applied to explain the sexual aggressions committed by adolescents (e.g., Hunter, Figueredo, Malamuth & Becker, 2003). Emerging findings from prospective longitudinal studies show that the childhood predictors of adolescenceonset sexual aggression do not similarly predict the adult-onset of sexual aggression (Lussier, Blokland, Mathesius, Pardini & Loeber, 2015a), something also demonstrated in studies using purposive samples based on retrospective data with youth and adult offenders (Knight, Ronis & Zakireh, 2009). The lack of certainty around whether or not the same explanatory factors apply to both sexual aggression committed by adolescents and adults may have also contributed, at least in part, to misconceptions surrounding the continuity of sexual aggression over life course.…”

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Understanding the origins and the development of rape and sexual aggression against women: Four generations of research and theorizing

Lussier

Cale

2016

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origins and the development of rape and sexual aggression against women. For the most part, the first three generations of research and theorizing provided an inherently static view of the propensity among males to commit a sexual aggression, providing little information about the developmental processes involved in the origins and course of sexually aggressive behavior. This article provides a review of contemporary explanations of sexual aggression against women and an examination of the underlying developmental issues that these models imply. Given the emergence of longitudinal research on sexual aggression, these issues are then contrasted and compared with the relatively nascent body of knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual aggression over the life course. More specifically, in recent years a fourth generation of research and theorizing concerned by the developmental and life course factors conducive to rape and sexual aggression has emerged. This fourth generation proposes a more dynamic etiological framework to understand the origins and the development of sexually aggressive behaviors that is directed by men toward women. Emerging research from this generation highlight unresolved issues about, among other things, the understanding of the continuity and discontinuity of rape and sexual aggression over time as well as the developmental pathways leading to rape and sexual aggression.

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Implications of sex offender classification on reporting demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers: Results from an Australia jurisdiction

Gullotta¹,

Greenberg

Adily³

et al. 2020

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Background: Cross-sectional and retrospective offence data are often used to classify sex offenders in epidemiological and survey research, but little empirical evidence exists regarding the practical implications of this for applied research. This study describes the data-linkage process and subsequent classification of sex offenders in a cohort of prisoners recruited as part of an Australian inmate health survey and implications for reporting results. Methods: Data-linkage was used to join the New South Wales (NSW) Inmate Health Surveys to the states re-offending database to identify men with histories of sexual offending. Sex offenders were classified into men who sexually offended against children only (ChildSOs), against adults only (AdultSOs), and men who sexually offended against both children and adults (Age-PolySOs). Results: Using historical offending data rather than the current offence information only, an additional 35.4% of men with histories of sexual offences were identified. Differences were found between the three sex offender subgroups in terms of demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers. Age-PolySOs reported higher educational attainment, and were less likely to report being self-employed, single marital status, and having children. Half the ChildSOs self-reported a mental health issue and half of the ChildSOs and Age-PolySOs reported four or more chronic health conditions. Age-PolySOs were older than the other sex offender groups when committing their first non-sexual, non-violent crime (M=43.2 years, SD=13.8); violent crime (M=39.5 years, SD=11.1); and sexual crime (M=47.8 years, SD=11.2). Age-PolySOs also committed more sexual offences (M=5.91, SD=11.2) compared to those who only offended against one victim age group. Conclusion: These findings suggested that historical offending records should be used to more accurately identify sex offender groups and that differences in demographic, health, and criminal careers exist for the different sex offender subgroups.

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The Childhood Risk Factors of Adolescent‐Onset and Adult‐Onset of Sex Offending

Cited by 19 publications

References 65 publications

Implications of sex offender classification on reporting demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers: results from an Australian jurisdiction

Implications of sex offender classification on reporting demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers: results from an Australian jurisdiction

Understanding the origins and the development of rape and sexual aggression against women: Four generations of research and theorizing

Implications of sex offender classification on reporting demographic characteristics, health, and criminal careers: Results from an Australia jurisdiction

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