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Debowska, A, Boduszek, D and Willmott, D (2017) Psychosocial correlates of attitudes towards male sexual violence in a sample of financial crime, property crime, general violent, and homicide offenders. Sexual Abuse: Journal of Research and Treatment. ISSN 1079-0632
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Abstract
Whilst those currently serving prison sentences for sexual violence can be identified and receive treatment, the number of prisoners with a history of sexual violence against female partners is unknown. Methods to identify prisoners with a proclivity for such violence and accurately assess the risk they pose before and after incarceration are therefore required. Here, we aimed to assess the level of sexually violent attitudes within dating relationships and to examine their associations with experiences of child abuse and neglect (CAN), psychopathic personality traits, prisonization, number of incarcerations, age, years of schooling, relationship status, and parenting among different types of offenders (financial crime, property crime, general violent, and homicide offenders). Data were collected among a large systematically selected sample of adult male inmates (N = 1,123). We demonstrated that sexual violence-supportive attitudes appear to be a function of child sexual abuse, psychopathic personality traits, and may be developed through early socialisation experiences as well as incarceration. Practical implications of current findings are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1701 Psychology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2016 11:24 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 12:11 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1177/1079063217691966 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5092 |
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