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Aberrant Sexual Arousal in Sexual Offenders
Author(s) -
EARLS CHRISTOPHER M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1988.tb50848.x
Subject(s) - standardization , sexual arousal , psychology , arousal , stimulus (psychology) , sex offense , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , sexual abuse , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , medicine , medical emergency , computer science , operating system
The present article has reviewed the experimental work concerning deviant sexual arousal to sexually aggressive and nonsexually aggressive cues in rapists and child molesters. To date, the results of this work are encouraging and indicate that we are able to identify these two offender groups on the basis of their erectile responses to sexual violence despite variability due to laboratories, stimulus material, and language. In addition, recent suggestions regarding the standardization of procedures and stimulus material have been considered. It has been argued that while standardization has a number of advantages, we must be careful not to discourage the development of new procedures nor to oversell current assessment procedures. Finally, some directions for future research have been outlined and suggestions based on empirical findings made for ways in which we might begin standardization.