Citation

Lindsay WR, Whitefield E, Carson D. Leg. Crim. Psychol. 2007; 12(1): 55-68.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, British Psychological Society, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1348/135532505X85882

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Background. Over the past 10 years, the focus of assessment and treatment for sex offenders has changed from the assessment of skills and deviant sexual preferences to the assessment and treatment of cognitions that might be considered to encourage or justify inappropriate sexual behaviour. There have been a few assessment measures of deviant sexual cognitions developed for adults in mainstream sex offender populations but none in less able populations. The present study describes an assessment questionnaire consisting of 7 scales for cognitions associated with rape, voyeurism, exhibitionism, dating abuse, stalking, homosexual assault and offences against children, designed to be used by sex offenders with intellectual disabilities.