376 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Most people who read an article in the newspaper about the brutal rape of a woman by a stranger, or the long-standing sexual abuse of a young boy by his step-father have a strong visceral reaction which is a mix of anger, fear, and incomprehension. Apart from these aversive reactions, several questions also come to people’s minds: Was this offender crazy or sexually obsessed? What is the purpose... Read more

Introduction, Jean Proulx  Part I. Theoretical and empirical bases  1. Pithers’ Relapse-Prevention Model, Jean Proulx  2. Ward and Hudson’s Pathways and Self-Regulation Models, Jean Proulx  3. Routine Activities and Rational Choice in the Offending Process of Sexual Aggressors, Eric Beauregard and Benoit Leclerc  Part II. Pathways in the Offending Process of Sexual Aggressors: A Multifactorial Study  4. Pathways in the Offending Process of Extrafamilial Sexual Aggressors of Women, Jean Proulx and Eric Beauregard  5. Pathways in the Offending Process of Marital Rapists, Jean Proulx and Eric Beauregard  6. Pathways in the Offending Process of Extrafamilial Sexual Aggressors of Children, Eric Beauregard, Jean Proulx and Benoit Leclerc  7. Pathways in the Offending Process of Incest Offenders, Benoit Leclerc, Eric Beauregard, Elham Forouzan and Jean Proulx  8. Pathways in the Offending Process of Hebephilic Offenders, Sébastien Alarie and Jean Proulx  9. Pathways in the Offending Process of Polymorphic Sexual Aggressors, Patrick Lussier  Part III. Criminal Career and Recidivism in Sexual Aggressors  10. A Criminal-Career Approach to Sex Offender Subtypes, Jesse Cale and Patrick Lussier  11. Offending Pathways and Recidivism in Five Extrafamilial Sex Offender Subtypes, Patrick Lussier and Jesse Cale  Part IV. Pathways in the Offending Process of Sexual Aggressors: Additional Studies  12. Rapists and Sexual Murderers: Combined Pathways to Offending, Shannon Vettor, Anthony Beech and Jessica Woodhams  13. Offense Pathways of Extrafamilial Child Molesters: A UK Study, Adam Carter, Georgia Barnett, Ewa Stefenka-Hodge, Tamsin Higgs  14. The Self-Regulation Model of the Sexual Offence Process: Theory and Research, Drew Kingston and Pamela Yates  Conclusion, Jean Proulx.

Biography

Jean Proulx is Director of the School of Criminology, University of Montreal.

Eric Beauregard is an Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University and he is the co-director of the Centre for Research on Sexual Violence.

Patrick Lussier is an Associate Professor at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.

Benoit Leclerc is a criminologist in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University.

"...an accessible overview of the past and current research into the antecedents of sexual offending... Proulx and his colleagues provide both old and new information that is suitable to all scholarly audiences."— David Prescott, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders