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Assessing and Treating Men Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses

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In the present chapter we provide a review of the literature on the assessment, management, and treatment of adult males who have committed a sexual offense. We provide a review of the frequency and prevalence of sexual offending with a focus on trends in victimization data. We then focus on a comprehensive and multimodal assessment of empirically supported risk factors, namely paraphilic interests, sexual preoccupation, and antisociality, and discuss various risk assessment procedures. The literature on treatment is reviewed with an explicit focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and pharmacological approaches. We conclude the chapter with a discussion on future research directions, which includes important technological advancements in the assessment and management of men who have committed sexual offenses.

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Moss, S., Simmons, M., Trendell, S., Stephens, S. (2018). Assessing and Treating Men Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses. In: Ternes, M., Magaletta, P., Patry, M. (eds) The Practice of Correctional Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00452-1_9

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