Magaletta Philip R, Faust Erik, Bickart William, McLearen Alix M
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2014 Feb;58(2):137-53. doi: 10.1177/0306624X12465271. Epub 2012 Nov 22.
Despite the dramatic increase in the number of convicted child pornography offenders, little is known about their potential clinical needs. The few studies that do explore this subgroup of sex offenders suggest clinical heterogeneity compared with other sex offender subgroups. However, research designs used in many studies have limited generalizability, have examined primarily treated or treatment samples, and have not included comparisons with nontreatment, community samples of men. The current study addresses such limitations by using nontreatment samples and multiple comparison groups to examine mean scales score differences on a commonly used clinical and personality assessment, the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). The sample, drawn from an admissions cohort of federal offenders, those Internet-only Child Pornography Offenders (ICPOs; n = 35) and those with a history of child molesting exclusively (child molesters, n = 26). They were compared with each other and the male normative sample from the PAI. Results indicate that interpersonal deficits and depression featured most prominently in the profiles of the ICPOs. Consistent with prior research, they also obtained lower scores on aggression and dominance compared with the child molesters and the male normative sample. Implications for future research, training, and clinical practice with incarcerated ICPOs are offered.
尽管被定罪的儿童色情制品犯罪者数量急剧增加，但对于他们潜在的临床需求却知之甚少。少数探索这一性犯罪者亚群体的研究表明，与其他性犯罪者亚群体相比，存在临床异质性。然而，许多研究中使用的研究设计普遍适用性有限，主要研究的是接受过治疗或正在接受治疗的样本，并且没有与未接受治疗的男性社区样本进行比较。当前的研究通过使用未接受治疗的样本和多个比较组来解决这些局限性，以检验在常用的临床和人格评估工具——人格评估问卷（PAI）上的平均量表得分差异。样本来自联邦罪犯的入院队列，即仅涉及网络儿童色情制品犯罪者（ICPOs；n = 35）和仅具有儿童猥亵史的犯罪者（儿童猥亵者，n = 26）。将他们相互比较，并与PAI的男性常模样本进行比较。结果表明，人际缺陷和抑郁在ICPOs的特征中最为突出。与先前的研究一致，与儿童猥亵者和男性常模样本相比，他们在攻击性和支配性方面的得分也较低。本文还为未来针对被监禁的ICPOs的研究、培训和临床实践提供了启示。
