Open AccessSex Offender Characteristics: Analysis Based on a Sample of Hungarian Prisoners
Author(s) -
Mihály Somogyvári
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of humanities and social sciences studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2663-7197
DOI - 10.32996/jhsss.2021.3.3.6
Subject(s) - prison , psychology , sex offender , vulnerability (computing) , conditionality , perspective (graphical) , sexual abuse , recidivism , suicide prevention , clinical psychology , psychiatry , criminology , poison control , medicine , computer security , medical emergency , political science , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , law
The present study introduces the differences in sex offender groups primarily from the perspective of prison, focusing on the attributes that determine placement, safety, and the conditionality of therapeutic programs. The study is primarily based on the risk analysis and registration database of the Hungarian Prison Service. The result of the study is that perpetrators of sexual abuse against children, and perpetrators of sexual assault against adults showed significant differences in each reintegration needs and in-prison risks, including their background and childhood, in-prison and out-of-prison vulnerability, integration issues, suicide risk, and other areas. Those who abuse children show a unique picture different from all other groups of offenders, while violent sex offenders targeting adults show similarities in most areas to violent offenders in the control group.