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January 2009
The Accuracy of Recidivism Risk Assessments for Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis
Publisher(s):These results suggest that it is possible to conduct psychologically informed risk assessments that have the dual advantages of high predictive accuracy and clinically useful understanding of specific cases.
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Reasons Why We Can't Profile Sex Offenders
Publisher(s):The author of this article discusses how researchers have developed "typologies" of sex offenders and have focused on describing characteristics of adult and adolescent sex offender, both males and females and that although this information is helpful none of it speaks of erotic development and its connection with the sex disorder or Paraphilia Disorder.