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Research on the illegal acts done for sexual stimulation or gratification, or involving display or exposure of sexual organs.

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• Juvenile Sex Offender Research Bibliography - A comprehensive bibliography of scholarly research and literature relating to juvenile sex offenders.
  
• Psychopathic Personality Commitment Law - Provides for indefinite civil commitment of dangerous sex offenders to the Department of Human Services for treatment.
  
• How To Survive in Prison as an Innocent Man Convicted of a Sex Crime - This article includes some strong views that may be surprising and challenging. It is believed there are many innocent men and women in prison who were wrongly convicted of sex offenses.
  
• Still No Takers Under Texas Castration Law - Texas become the first state in the U.S. to specifically approve surgical castration for offenders convicted of certain sex crimes.
  
• 1996 Victims' Rights Sourcebook: A Compilation and Comparison of Victims' Rights Laws - PDF files covering key rights of crime victims provided for under U.S. and state laws.
  
• Assessing Violent Recidivism in Sexual Offenders - Forensic and clinical psychologists have long been asked to make predictions about violence, despite the fact that, in the past, such predictions have been notoriously inaccurate.
  
• Reducing Deviant Arousal Using Vicarious Sensitization - A conditioning method to reduce deviant arousal in adolescent sex offenders.
  
• Juvenile Justice Bulletin- Offenders in Juvenile Court, 1994 - This Bulletin, and the larger report on which it is based, present important information about the youth seen in the Nation's juvenile courts.
  
• Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report - A comprehensive source of information about juvenile crime, violence, and victimization.
  
• Carpenter's Forensic Science Resources - Categorized collection of links.
  
• Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation - Scientific research does not provide any evidence that gay men or lesbians are any more likely than heterosexuals to molest children.
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime and Victims Statistics - Information, statistics, and publications about criminal victimization in the United States and related data collections.
  
• The Sex Offender: Corrections, Treatment, and Legal Practice - These two volumes together give a complete and thorough overview of the relevant scientific and professional literature on dealing with those who commit sexual offenses. The books are organized in the manner of legal reference volumes.
  
• Dangerousness: Predicting Recidivism in Violent Sex Offenders - When a violent sex offender has been tried and convicted of his crime(s), he may be proffered to a mental health facility of some variable nature for assessment and treatment.
  
• Managing Adult Sex Offenders in the Community - Results of a national telephone survey identifying how probation and parole agencies managed adult sex offenders.
  
• Abusive Behaviors Alleged in Two Samples of Likely False Allegations - A preliminary descriptive study to examine the types of abusive behaviors described when sexual abuse allegations are likely false.
  
• Sexual Villainy: A Sex Offender Profile - This research attempted to draw a general profile of the NRV sex offender by extracting information found in the forensic files, with hope that a portrayal of the average offender would make the community aware of the hidden sexual deviancy.
  
• Research on Child Molestation: Child Molesters Rarely Serve `Serious Time' - An electronic analysis of the outcomes for those charged with child molestation from 1985-1993 revealed that 70 percent of those found guilty did not serve jail time.
  
• Robert Hare, PhD - Study of Psychopaths - Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), with demonstrated reliability and validity, is rapidly being adopted worldwide as the standard instrument for researchers and clinicians.
  
• John Howard Society of Alberta - Sex Offender Recidivism - Sex offenders are of grave concern to the public due to the nature of sexual offending. This information sheet is intended to provide a quick overview of the research on this topic.
  
• 1996 National Victim Assistance Academy - Federal legislation that requires colleges to compile and publish annual campus security reports.
  
• Campus Crime and Victimization - Crime on college and university campuses first captured media attention in the mid-1980s and brought the issue into public view.
  
• Sex Crimes, Punishment, and Therapy - Is chemical castration an acceptable punishment for male sex offenders?
  
• Female Sexual Abusers: A Theory of Loss - Awareness about female sexual abuse perpetrators has increased in recent years. The best estimates put female perpetrators of sexual abuse at about 20% for male children and 5% for female children.
  
• Sexual Offence Recidivism: Prediction versus Understanding - This paper identifies from the literature risk factors for reoffending in convicted sex offenders.
  
• Economics of Implementing Intensive In-prison Sex-offender Treatment Programs - Since the mid-1980s economic evaluation has become an essential appraisal tool of health and related social services.
  
• Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse -- Later Criminal Consequences - Previous research established evidence for a cycle of violence: people who were abused and neglected in childhood are more likely than those who were not to become involved in criminal behavior, including violent crime, later in life.
  
• Crimes Against Children: The Nature and Threat of Sexual Predators on the Internet - Hearing before the subcommittee on crime of the committee on the judiciary, House of Representatives.
  
• Child Sex Abuse: Internet Crimes - Brief overview of pedophiles on the Web.
  
• Sex Offender Community Notification - Registration legislation is intended to deter offenders from committing new offenses and create a registry to assist law enforcement investigations.
  
  

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