Franca Cortoni

• Université de Montréal

Sexual coping, general coping and cognitive distortions were investigated in 25 rapists, 36 child molesters and 25 violent offenders. Rapists did not report more support for rape-supportive distortions than the violent offender comparison group. Child molesters scored higher than the other groups on the measure of molestation-supportive distortions...

onducting applied research to determine the effectiveness of programs in addressing criminogenic factors and reducing reoffending is too often viewed and treated as a process that takes place well after a program has been in operation and sufficient time has elapsed to determine outcome. This situation, however, leads to very unsatisfactory results...

The current research examined the hypothesis that sexual activity functions as a coping strategy for sexual offenders. A 16-item scale, the Coping Using Sex Inventory (CUSI), was developed to assess the presence of and the degree to which sex was used to deal with problematic situations. Sexual offenders consistently reported, using sexual activiti...

The current research examined the hypothesis that sexual activity functions as a coping strategy for sexual offenders. A 16-item scale, the Coping Using Sex Inventory (CUSI), was developed to assess the presence of and the degree to which sex was used to deal with problematic situations. Sexual offenders consistently reported using sexual activitie...

The present study examined the parent-child attachments, typical coping styles, and childhood sexual abuse among 30 child molesters, 24 nonsexual offenders, and 29 nonoffenders. The results indicated that all subjects reported greater security in their attachments to their mothers than to their fathers and the insecure patterns of childhood attachm...

This study assessed the social self-esteem and the coping styles of child molesters, nonsex offenders, and nonoffenders. Child molesters were found to have lower self-esteem than the other participants, and they more typically made use of emotion-focused (i.e., ineffective) coping strategies. A combination of low self-esteem and poor coping was fou...

The present chapter will describe the treatment programs for incarcerated sexual offenders sponsored by the correctional services of Canada (CSC) in the Ontario regional penitentiaries. The chapter will describe sexual offender treatment in Ontario penitentiaries in general terms and then it will focus on two programs in particular: the Warkworth S...