The Relationship Between Childhood Family Environment and Adult Sexual Offending in a Sample of Sexual Offenders

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Sexual Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities: An Exploratory Comparison Study in an Incarcerated U.S. Sample

“…Participants with ID were also less likely to be raised in a two-parent home than participants without ID. A previous study that utilized the present sample found that individuals who were raised in a two-parent home were less likely to use physical violence during the index offense (O’Toole & Jeglic, 2014).…”

Determining Sexual Offender Profiles From Life Trajectories

“…In addition, compared with perpetrators of nonsexual assaults, sex offenders exhibit more personality disorders such as schizoid, obsessive-compulsive characteristics, and an avoidant personality (Fazel, Hope, Donnell, & Jacoby, 2002). Moreover, a negative personal and family history (Moroge et al, 2014; O’Toole & Jeglic, 2014) are thought to affect the individual’s development (development of an insecure anxious attachment, disorders of behavioral or emotional capacities of regulation, disorders of capacities of mentalization) and are factors that contribute to a vulnerability to psychopathological disorders (Schneck, Bowers, & Turkson, 2012). Another factor concerns socioaffective and relationship abilities ( relationship and contextual dimension ) and, in particular, impairment in emotional processes.…”