Sexual interest in children is an important factor contributing to sexual (re) offending against
children. The current state of research makes it difficult to conclude if people with pedophilia …

Stigmatization and societal punitiveness about pedophilia have a range of potential
consequences, such as the social isolation of people with sexual interest in children, and the …

Introduction Pedophilic sexual interest is an important risk factor in sexual offender
recidivism and remains a key component in the clinical assessment of child sexual offenders …

The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI) is a structured rating scale of four child
victim characteristics: number, age, gender, and relationship of victims. Sexual offenders …

In this article, we sought to build on existing stigmatization research by examining the extent
to which internalized stigmatization (ie, the personal adoption and incorporation of social …

Recent research on a risk assessment tool for child pornography offending suggests that
admission of sexual interest in children is a risk factor for any sexual recidivism. Admission is …

The most commonly used risk assessment tools for predicting sexual violence focus almost
exclusively on static, historical factors. Consequently, they are assumed to be unable to …

This classic and invaluable reference handbook, written for sex researchers and their
students, has now been completely revised in a new, fourth edition. It remains the only easy …

The present study investigated multivariate associations between attachment styles and
personality disorders (PDs)—and the mediating role of trust—in a sample of child molesters …

This study examined the predictive and concurrent validity of the Screening Scale for
Pedophilic Interests (SSPI) and its recent revision (SSPI-2), using a large sample of 2,416 …