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Intra- and extra-familial child sexual abusers and recidivism in Sweden: a 10- to 15-year follow-up study.
- Source :
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology; Jun2014, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p341-361, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Rates of recidivism and types of recidivist crime have varied greatly in follow-up studies of child sexual abusers. In this long-term study of a population-based cohort (n = 193) and a nationwide clinic-referred study group (n = 166) of child sexual abusers, rates of recidivism and associations between index descriptors and outcomes were compared between intra-familial offenders and extra-familial offenders. Overall, 9.8% relapsed into sexual offence, 12.4% relapsed into violence and 2.6% relapsed into both types of offences in the population-based cohort. Corresponding numbers for the clinic-referred group were 13.9, 10.8 and 4.2%. Extra-familial offenders at index were significantly more likely to relapse into both sexual and violent criminality than intra-familial offenders, but no differences were found in rates of hands-off and hands-on crimes. Analysis of receiver operating characteristics showed that age at first conviction predicted sexual, violent and any criminality, with areas under the curve ranging from .67 to .80. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RECIDIVISM
CHILD sexual abuse
COHORT analysis
SEX crimes
SEXUAL abuse victims
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14789949
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 96140328
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2014.911945