Abstract:In many countries, sexual crimes are highly concerned about social security issues. Research models attempted to establish a general framework to cover variability of sexual offences, however, they left changes of criminal course out of consideration. In this present study, research examines the official criminal records of 3750 adult sexual offenders by using group-based trajectory modeling technique. Our study identified a four-trajectory model for sexual offense which has more substantial meaning. These trajectories differed on recidivism and several key risk factor domains. These findings indicate heterogeneity of sexual offenders would be highlighted when take into account their changes of criminal course. The implications for the risk assessment and treatment are discussed.
Vita:Chien Huang obtained his PhD in 2014 from National Taiwan University where he studied dual cognitive process analysis of sexual offending and violent assault. He is an assistant professor of Department of Clinical Psychology at FU JEN Catholic University and a licensed clinical psychologist in Taiwan, also a fellow of the Taiwan Association of Clinical Psychology. He has been involved in treatment and evaluation of sexual offenders in community and also taken on the supervisor of therapist in prison. His current research interests are etiology of sexual offending and analysis of deception or lying words from linguistic styles using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC).
