
@article{ref1,
title="A comparison of the neuropsychological profiles of adult male sex offenders and non-offenders with a learning disability",
journal="Journal of sexual aggression",
year="2001",
author="Quigley, April and McKenzie, Kren and Murray, George C. and Mathesod, Edith and Michie, Amanda M. and Lindsay, William R.",
volume="7",
number="2",
pages="57-64",
abstract="The present study compared the neumpsychologlcal pmfiles of a group of adult male sex offenden with a laming disability (n-42) with a group of adult male non-offenders with a learning disability (n-42) using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised (1986). The groups wen matched for full-scale IQ. Thc study found that the non-offender group had significantly higher Verbal 1Q scorn than the sex offender group. No significant differences wen found for Performance IQ. The non-ofinder group was also found to have significantly hlgher scores on the Vocabulary sub-test than the sex offender group and the sex offender group was found to have significantly higher scores on the ObJecr Assembly subtest than the non-ofinder group. Finally. the sex offender group was found to have a significantly lower Verbal IQ than Performance IQ. No significant Verbal-Performance discrepancy was found for the non-offender group. Possible implications of these findings are dlscusscd.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1355-2600",
doi="10.1080/13552600108416167",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552600108416167"
}