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Organisation and quality criteria of sex offenderoutpatient treatment in Belgium
No full textUnfortunately each country has its extreme sex offender cases. In 1998 Belgium had outburst of the Dutroux case which had its impact on Belgian laws, the police organisation and other agencies, such as the unit of missing persons. It is worthwhile to mention that most adjustments and reforms of sex laws were introduced before this outburst. Dutroux can be considered as a catalyst.
At the end of the nineties the cooperation agreement between the federal state and the communities was established with regard to the guidance and treatment of sex offenders. Nowadays there is a specialized care network for sex offenders, both in psychiatric hospitals and in community teams. Three references centres (one in Flanders, one in Brussels, and one in Walloon) support the specialized care network and are exclusively paid by justice, although one third of our patients are referred on a voluntary basis. Several initiatives were taken to get other sources, for example a collaboration with the Ministry of Welfare to support preventive initiatives, such as Stop It Now! Flanders. In this paper, the organisation of sex offender treatment and quality criteria in Belgium will be discussed.unknow
Organisation and quality criteria of sex offender outpatient treatment in Belgium
No full textUnfortunately each country has its extreme sex offender cases. In 1998 Belgium had outburst of the Dutroux case which had its impact on Belgian laws, the police organisation and other agencies, such as the unit of missing persons. It is worthwhile to mention that most adjustments and reforms of sex laws were introduced before this outburst. Dutroux can be considered as a catalyst.
At the end of the nineties the cooperation agreement between the federal state and the communities was established with regard to the guidance and treatment of sex offenders. Nowadays there is a specialized care network for sex offenders, both in psychiatric hospitals and in community teams. Three references centres (one in Flanders, one in Brussels, and one in Walloon) support the specialized care network and are exclusively paid by justice, although one third of our patients are referred on a voluntary basis. Several initiatives were taken to get other sources, for example a collaboration with the Ministry of Welfare to support preventive initiatives, such as Stop It Now! Flanders. In this paper, the organisation of sex offender treatment and quality criteria in Belgium will be discussed.unknow
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Unraveling the neuropsychological underpinnings of behavioral regulation problems of child sexual offenders : reinforcement learning impairments and emotion recognition impairments
No full textAbstract: One important contributing factor to the onset and maintenance of sexual offending behavior against children, is the inability to regulate oneself or one\u2019s behavior (i.e., self-regulation or behavioral regulation problems). Accordingly, improving behavioral regulation is one of the most important goals in the treatment of individuals committing sexual offenses against children (i.e., child sexual offenders; CSOs). Up to now, however, a precise understanding of the behavioral regulation impairments and the mechanisms that underlie these impairments is lacking, which makes it difficult to design targeted treatment strategies to address these impairments. This thesis, therefore, sat out to expand our knowledge on the mechanisms that underpin this contributory factor. In order to do this, we drew on the ideas of Ward and colleagues, who recommended to ground the contributory factors to sexual offending in neuropsychological constructs and processes. Whereas most attention has been given to executive functions when studying the neuropsychological underpinnings of behavioral regulation problems, this thesis studied two other neuropsychological processes that might also play a role in the behavioral regulation problems of CSOs, that is reinforcement learning and facial affect recognition. These processes that are critically involved in the inhibition of unwanted behavior, attracted considerable attention in the offender literature, where reinforcement learning impairments and affect recognition impairments have been described in antisocial, particularly aggressive populations. Reinforcement learning is the process by which individuals learn to associate their actions with the outcomes that follow, and modulate their behavior in the service of these outcomes, which function as reinforcement. In general, individuals will select behaviors that are associated with high-valued outcomes (i.e., rewards) and suppress behaviors that are associated with negative outcomes (i.e., punishments). Affect recognition ability also plays a crucial role in the regulation of one\u2019s behavior as emotions serve as reinforcers on the basis of which individuals modulate their behavior. Whereas displays of positive emotions reinforce the behaviors leading to these emotions, signs of distress, in particular fear and sadness, prompt to inhibit the behaviors that elicit this distress. Although these processes have been largely overlooked in the sexual offender literature up to now, the research in this thesis clearly indicates that the neuropsychological impairments that are involved in the behavioral regulation difficulties of CSOs are not limited to purely cognitive executive dysfunctions, but also include dysfunctions in reinforcement learning and affect recognition. These results allow to identify new treatment possibilities that can be added to traditional approaches of working with CSOs to improve therapeutic outcomes for CSOs
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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