151 research outputs found
sj-docx-2-ijo-10.1177_0306624X231219216 – Supplemental material for Assessing the Effectiveness of a Specialized, Field-Based Treatment Program for Youth Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses in an Australian Jurisdiction
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-ijo-10.1177_0306624X231219216 for Assessing the Effectiveness of a Specialized, Field-Based Treatment Program for Youth Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses in an Australian Jurisdiction by James M. Ogilvie, Nadine McKillop, Jesse Cale, Troy Allard, John Rynne and Stephen Smallbone in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology</p
sj-docx-1-ijo-10.1177_0306624X231219216 – Supplemental material for Assessing the Effectiveness of a Specialized, Field-Based Treatment Program for Youth Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses in an Australian Jurisdiction
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ijo-10.1177_0306624X231219216 for Assessing the Effectiveness of a Specialized, Field-Based Treatment Program for Youth Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses in an Australian Jurisdiction by James M. Ogilvie, Nadine McKillop, Jesse Cale, Troy Allard, John Rynne and Stephen Smallbone in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology</p
Situational Theories
No full textThis chapter examines historical and current developments in situational approaches to sexual offending. We consider the implications of situational theories for clinical and risk management responses to known sexual offenders, and more widely for the prevention of sexual offending. We conclude that situational factors are a theoretically and practically crucial, but widely neglected, aspect of sexual offending. In our view, neither dispositional nor situational factors alone are sufficient to explain sexual offending. Rather, sexual offences always occur as a result of proximal interactions between individual and situational factors.No Full Tex
Editor
No full textIn 2015 the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA) established a prevention sub-committee, chaired by Jon Brown. NOTA has, of course, always been concerned with the prevention of sexual violence and abuse. However the establishment of the prevention sub-committee signals an important new direction for NOTA by expanding its conception of, and involvement in, prevention activities beyond its historical focus on therapeutic and risk management responses with known sexual offenders. My aim in this Editorial is to consider the implications of this development for the Journal, by way of outlining the kinds of research I think are needed to inform an expanded prevention agenda. My suggestions are by no means exhaustive, and I acknowledge that others may have different priorities and emphases.No Full Tex
Themed issue on sexual abuse in organisations: invited introduction and commentary
No full textTwenty five years ago, US criminologist Lawrence Sherman wryly asked: “If future crime is six times more predictable by the address of its occurrence than by the identity of the offender, why aren’t we thinking more about wheredunit, rather than just whodunit?” (Sherman, 1995, pp. 36–37). Many empirical observations that crimes of various kinds are more likely to occur in particular places, and at particular times, have since led to significant reductions in the incidence of specific crimes, ranging from bicycle theft to residential burglaries, to assaults in and around bars, to armed robbery, and so on (see e.g. Wortley & Townsley, 2016). Analysing and responding to the spatial and temporal dimensions of specific kinds of crime is now commonplace among crime prevention agents and practitioners.No Full Tex
An integrated life-course developmental theory of sexual offending
No full textWhere sexual offending is considered at all in developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) theories, it is generally understood to occupy a position at more serious end of a continuum of irresponsible, socially deviant, or unlawful behavior. Thus DLC theories explicitly or implicitly assume that the same concepts and principles that apply to all other forms of offending apply equally to sexual offending. This chapter presents an integrated theory of sexual offending that incorporates ideas from DLC approaches. It briefly addresses each of the 10 points listed by David Farrington as the key empirically confirmed developmental dimensions of offending and antisocial behavior. The chapter's aim is to present an integrated theory of sexual offending that considers the contribution of individual, ecological, and situational factors. The theory proposed here is a new iteration of a model originally proposed by Marshall and Barbaree and later revised and extended by Smallbone, Marshall, and Wortley.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeNo Full Tex
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Evidence, policy and practice
No full textArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeNo Full Tex
Understanding and Improving Therapeutic Engagement with Adolescent Sexual offenders
No full textSince the 1980s there has been an increasing recognition and concern that
adolescents comprise more than one-quarter of all sex offenders (Finkelhor, Ormrod
& Chaffin, 2010). As part of a broader community response to this problem,
substantial clinical and research attention has been dedicated to developing
specialised treatment programs for adolescent sexual offenders (ASOs). As with many
clinical and clinical-forensic populations, clinicians have been inconsistent in their
ability to effectively engage ASOs in therapy, with high non-completion rates
associated with many specialised programs. Poor therapeutic engagement (TE) of
ASOs may not only result in inefficient commitment of clinical resources, but may
also lead to breaches of statutory orders, increased costs associated with further court
and youth justice services, and to detention that may otherwise have been avoidable.
Perhaps of greatest concern is the consistent observation in both adolescent and adult
samples that sexual offenders who begin but do not complete treatment may be at
higher risk of recidivism.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of PsychologyGriffith HealthFull Tex
The Single European Market and SMEs: A Comparison of its Effects in the Food and Clothing Sectors in the UK and Portugal
No full textSMALLBONE D., CUMBERS A., SYRETT S. and LEIGH R. (1999) The Single European Market and SMEs: a comparison of its effects in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal, Reg. Studies 33 , 51-62. The creation of a Single European Market in 1992 represented an attempt to accelerate the process of European economic integration. However, in terms of the actual impact of the Single Market process, most of the attention so far has concentrated upon the implications for the large firm corporate sector. In comparison, there has been a lack of in-depth analysis of the effects of the Single Market for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), despite the contribution to employment generation that is often prescribed for them in policy terms. This paper seeks to stimulate a more informed debate about the consequences of the Single Market for SMEs by contrasting the effects on firms in different spatial and sectoral contexts, drawing upon original survey evidence of SMEs in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal. SMALLBONE D., CUMBERS A., SYRETT S. et LEIGH R. (1999) Le marcheunique europeenet les PME: une comparaison de ses effets dans les secteurs de l'alimenation et de l'habillement au Royaume-Uni et au Portugal, Reg. Studies 33 , 51-62. L'etablissement d'un marche unique europeen en 1992 a represente une tentative d'accelerer le processus d'integration economique europeenne. Cependant, l'impact reelde l'echeance1992 s'etait fait sentir largement sur les grandes societes. Parcontre, rares sont les recherches approfondies quant a l'impact du marche unique sur les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME), en depit de leur ro⁁le de createurs d'emploi. Puisant dans les resultats des enque⁁tes originelles aupres des secteurs de l'alimentation et de l'habillement au Royaume-Uni et au Portugal, cet article cherche a susciter une discussion plus fondee sur les consequences du marche unique pour ce qui est des PME en comparant les effets sur les entreprises dans des contextes geographiqueset sectoriels differents. SMALLBONE D., CUMBERS A., SYRETT S. und LEIGH R. (1999) Der europaische Binnenmarkt und klein-bis mittelgrosse Unternehmen (SMC): ein Vergleich seiner Auswirkungen auf die Bereiche Lebensmittel und Bekleidung im Vereinigten Konigreich und Portugal, Reg. Studies 33 , 51-62. Die Schaffung eines europaischen Binnenmarktes im Jahre 1992 stellte einen Versuch dar, den Prozess des europaischen wirtschaftlichen Zusammenschlusses zu beschleunigen. Bisher hat sich jedoch die Aufmerksamkeit unter dem Aspekt der tatsachlichen Auswirkung des Binnenmarktprozesses auf die Implikationen furden korporativen Grossfirmensektor konzentriert. Im Vergleich damit fehlt es trotz des zur Schaffung von Arbeitsplazen geleisteten Beitrags, die politische Stellungnahme ihnen oft zuschreibt, an grundlichen Analysen der Auswirkungen des Binnenmarktsauf kleineund mittelgrosse Unternehmen (Small and Medium Enterprises - SME). Dieser Aufsatz sucht, eine besser fundierte Diskussion uberdie Konsequenzen des Binnenmarkts fur kleine und mittlere Unternehmen in Gang zu bringen, indem er die Auswirkungen auf Firmen in verschiedenen raumlichen und betriebssektoralen Zusammenhangen gegenubersellt, wozu Beweise von ursprunglichen Gutachten uber SME im Lebensmittel- und Bekleidungssektor im Vereinigten Konigreich und Portugal herangezogen werden.Single Market, Smes, Spatial And Sectoral Contrasts, Food, Clothing, Marche Unique, Pme, Contrastes Geographiques Et Sectoriels, Alimentation, Habillement, Binnenmarkt, Kleine Und Mittlere Unternehmen, Gegensatze Von Raum Und Betriebssektor, Lebensmittel, Bekleidung,
Patterns in Unsolved Sexual Offences Against Women by Strangers
No full textOffending patterns in stranger sexual offences against women were analysed to identify crime scripts, and the predictive factors and contexts involved in unsolved cases. The aim of the study was to explore what patterns could be found in sexual offences against women for unsolved offences. Crime script analysis, hierarchical logistic regression and conjunctive analysis were used to analyse data from 542 cases from the Violent/ Sexual Crime Database (VSCD) based on police data. The sample was limited to sexual offences against women (16 years or above) by male stranger offenders, in a hands-on sexual offence in Queensland, Australia. An overall crime script was extracted, as well as script tracks for solved and unsolved cases. Differences were found in the location/ setting, offender approach method and offender-victim interaction stages. Several variables were found to be statistically significant in predicting whether a crime was solved or not: offender consumption of alcohol or drugs prior to the offence, vehicle used, bystander presence at any location, minimal offender force used, and if the victim was attacked while walking at the time of initial contact with the offender. After controlling for the presence of forensic evidence and case linkages within the sample, the two strongest predictors were offender use of minimal force and offender prior use of alcohol or drugs. Overall two themes emerged from the findings that impacted whether a case became solved or unsolved: criminal effectiveness and the level of personal engagement between the offender and victim. The concept of the travelling victim was also identified in relation to unsolved crimes. Prevention implications are discussed.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Criminology and Criminal JusticeArts, Education and LawFull Tex
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