Division of Forensic Psychology, National Forensic Service, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.
Institute of General Education, Kongju National University, Gongju, Republic of Korea.
PLoS One. 2020 Sep 17;15(9):e0239046. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239046. eCollection 2020.
The increasing recidivism rate of sex offenders indicates potential problems in existing recidivism programs. The present study was conducted to determine whether the polygraph examination is a useful technique to obtain a sex offender's concealed past sexual history. We collected fifty-two sex offenders' data and analyzed it. Among the 52 participants, the court ordered 26 sex offenders to take the psychiatric evaluation and the polygraph test. The other half were prisoners at the hospital who were currently undergoing treatment. The participants in the polygraph group disclosed more deviant sexual behaviors and paraphilia interests/behaviors than the comparison group. Thus, the polygraph examination is a powerful tool that can encourage sex offenders to disclose hidden information to help create suitable psychological therapy programs for preventing recidivism in the future.
性犯罪者的累犯率不断上升表明现有的累犯计划存在潜在问题。本研究旨在确定测谎检查是否是获取性犯罪者隐藏过去性史的有用技术。我们收集了 52 名性犯罪者的数据并进行了分析。在 52 名参与者中，法院命令 26 名性犯罪者接受精神病评估和测谎测试。另一半是在医院接受治疗的囚犯。测谎组的参与者比对照组披露了更多的异常性行为和性癖好/行为。因此，测谎检查是一种强大的工具，可以鼓励性犯罪者披露隐藏信息，以帮助制定未来预防累犯的合适心理治疗计划。
