Sex Offenders - Science topic

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I am a psychologist working for a prison of Japan. I carry out daily group work treating sex offenders.

I have already read the papers by W. Marshall and T. Ward written up to around 2006.

I would like to update my knowledge, so please tell me about recent academic trends in sex offender treatment.

In particular, I think that the Self-Regulation & Goal model (Ward and Hudson, 2006) is important. This is because I think it is effective in the treatment of train molesters ("CHIKAN"), who have a particularly high risk of re-offending in Japan.

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Hello, my name is Kyle William Dawson; I am finishing my B.S degree in Criminal Justice at UCF and an undergraduate certificate in Criminal profiling.

I first got interested in researching sexuality in a class at Seminole State while getting my A. A degree called Intro to Human Sexuality, but that interest faded

As I do this under guard cert. at UCF, I am taking a psychopathology class and a sex offenders class, this has gotten me reinterested.

I have been watching a lot of lectures on Youtube and reading research papers, and I think there is a lot of work to be done in this area.

I am currently conducting a systematic review on offender characteristics associated with transnational child sex offending/ "child sex tourism". Is anyone aware of any unpublished/ongoing research that I may be able to include in my study? Any help is greatly appreciated!

I'm looking for psychoanalytic and/or psycho-dynamic models for violent, aggressive and criminal acts and behavior, either within Klein's, Winnicott's or more contemporaneous author's theoretic framework.    

I am doing a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of sex offender registration laws with juvenile sex offenders. I want to find out if the laws would reduce recidivism rates. I narrowed down to four studies (Yes, the body of research addressing this topic has remained extremely low). Three studies report cell-counts, so I can calculate ORs from them. However, there is one study that conducts a survival analysis and reports hazard ratios. I should also mention that the proportion of participants who re-offended is very low (<10%). 

I know that ORs and HRs are different things ( Hazard ratios represent time to an event whereas odds ratios represent the cumulative risk of an event happening), but I also hear people say that hazard ratios will approximate odds ratios in many circumstances and can be coded as an OR in the effect size model.

How do I extract data from this study? Can I code the HR reported in this study as an OR? Is there any way to combine the HR and the ORs so that I can do a meta-analysis of all the studies? I have attached this article to this post. Thank you！

Investigate the issue of executive functions, personality and emotional attachment to sex offenders. I want to connect with research groups with similar interests.

Thanks,

Are some people over-sexed, sexually driven to the point where they become sex offenders?  Has sexual addiction become a norm with the influx of pornography on the internet and other media or is this the stuff that peodiphiles are made of?

Which peer reviewed articles are you aware of for this topic? It is a very interesting topic to me. Do city ordinances play a major role here? Is this a social probelm?

People wish to know about convicted sex offenders in their neighborhood. Should we also be allowed to know about convicted murderers, burglars, rapists, and other criminals?

Knowing that there is a vicious circle where children who were victims of sexual abuse became sex offenders when they grow up, I wonder why there is no research on whether children of sex offenders were abused. There are data bases of sex offenders in the UK and the USA. It is about time to conduct research on their children.

I am trying to research the phenomenon of society persecuting family members of sex offenders. I am focusing on internet related offenses (child pornography, etc).  Generally the spouse, children, and other family members are completely unaware yet become pariah to the general public as though they committed the offense themselves. Fears of guilt by association leads many secondary victims to avoid seeking support services creating long term issues. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Tammy

I am studying hate crime and want to look at peoples' beliefs about crimes based on revenge motivation underpinned by religious/cultural hatred. Research previously seems to have used vignettes whereas I want to look at it quantitatively using surveys however I cannot find a scale so specific.

Currently I am investigating the magnitude of sexual violence incidents in children (adolescents) aged 18 and below at an urban setting. My data source was a hospital's rape clinic register. The preliminary data came up with an alarming rate of completed rape incidents and the majority of victims were below the age of 10. Among these 30% of the children were boys. Since the data was a hospital's register it could not be representative of those who did never report to the hospital or any where else. To make a meaningful use of the data I decided to follow it further and find out what the legal system did with the cases reported to it. I wanted proportions of prosecuted incidents among those reported to the police. There were no researches in my country that tried to answer this question. The problem is however, sexual violence is considered a private matter and little attention is given to preventing it by authorities due to which I could not get an assistance from the local government to peruse the study. I am trying to access some sort of solution to this challenge if some one happens to read this and had similar problem before and know how to solve it. I can attach my research protocol if requested even for review by members.

Thank you