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Are Categorical Deniers Different? Understanding Demographic, Personality, and Psychological Differences between Denying and Admitting Individuals with Sexual Convictions
(Informa UK Limited, 2020)The purpose of this study was to establish whether there were demographic, personality, or psychological differences between a sample of 40 incarcerated sex offenders in categorical denial and 37 sex offenders admitting ... -
Academic domains as political battlegrounds: A global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology
(SAGE Publications, 2017)This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: ... -
International Update: New Zealand media law update
(2022)This update reports further on developments in New Zealand media law in the last few years, and follows on from the first part that dealt with defamation, privacy and breach of confidence. New Zealand’s hate speech ... -
Can Western Water Law Become More ‘Relational’? A Survey of Comparative Laws affecting Water across Australasia and the Americas
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)There is increasing support, in international legal theory and advocacy, for water governance approaches that go beyond the technocratic, and recognise the reciprocal relatedness of water peoples and water places. Such ... -
Taking eBook readers to prisons: A tale of two projects
(Springer International Publishing, 2014)This paper reports on a project that was first introduced to World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning attendees in 2012, the PLEIADES project (Portable Learning Environments for Incarcerated Adult Distance Education ... -
International Update New Zealand media law update
(2022)This update of New Zealand media law follows a short hiatus and presents highlights from the last few years. The update will be published in two parts, this first part dealing with developments in defamation, privacy, and ... -
Men with Sexual Convictions and Denial
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)Purpose of Review: We review the evidence base for men who categorically deny responsibility for their sexual crimes. Specifically, we consider the characteristics of these individuals and the purpose or function of the ... -
Evolution of a treatment programme for sex offenders: Changes to the NSW custody-based intensive treatment (CUBIT)
(Informa UK Limited, 2008)As a result of a high treatment attrition rate two significant changes were made from August 2005 to the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services custody-based intensive treatment programme for sexual offenders ... -
Treatment engagement with a sexual offender who denies committing the offense
(SAGE Publications, 2008)This case study describes a strategy for treating a sexual offender who categorically denies committing the offense. These offenders usually refuse to participate in treatment or are deemed ineligible or unsuitable for ... -
What is the best modality for treating sexual offenders?
(2009)This paper reviews the different treatment modalities used for treating sexual offenders. We provide an overview of the literature comparing group therapy with individual treatment and summarise the main advantages and ... -
Training correctional staff in the management of sexual offenders: Increasing knowledge and positive attitudes
(2012)Treatment will always rely, to some extent, on the positive support of non-therapy staff. Attitudes towards sex offenders, however, are usually negative. The aim of this study was to examine different correctional staff ... -
Preparing sex offenders for treatment: A preliminary evaluation of a preparatory programme
(2012)One of the emerging findings in offender rehabilitation is that treatment completion and therapeutic gains can be maximised under conditions where the participant is “ready” for psychotherapeutic intervention. This study ... -
How should "acceptance of responsibility" be addressed in sexual offending treatment programs?
(Elsevier BV, 2012)Sexual offenders in treatment programs are usually expected to take responsibility for their offending-which we define, on the basis of a literature review, as giving a detailed and precise disclosure of events which avoids ... -
Internet Sexual Offending: Overview of Potential Contributing Factors and Intervention Strategies
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)As Internet accessibility and use increase dramatically, more and more people are turning to it for sexual purposes. This growing use of the Internet for sexual purposes indicates that the proportion of Internet sexual ... -
The use of antilibidinal medications in the treatment of sexual offenders
(2010)Antilibidinal medications can be used to reduce a sexual offender’s deviant sexual fantasies and arousal. We briefly review what these medications are and what effects they have, how commonly they are used or should be ... -
An integrated groupwork methodology for working with sex offenders
(Informa UK Limited, 2009)There is now a considerable literature on the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. There exists another substantial literature on therapeutic groupwork and its relevance to a range of clinical populations. These ... -
A review of the use of therapeutic communities with sexual offenders
(SAGE Publications, 2010)Sexual offender treatment programmes are often facilitated in secure settings such as prisons or psychiatric hospitals, which are not ideal environments for such treatment. Arguably, however, when these environments are ... -
Cognitive distortions in sex offenders: Should they all be treatment targets?
(2009)In this paper we consider two sets of so-called “cognitive distortions”: those that have been shown to be unrelated to reoffending (i.e., noncriminogenic factors) and those that have been demonstrated to predict recidivism ... -
How registered nurses balance limited resources in order to maintain competence: a grounded theory study
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)Background: Nurses have limited time outside of work for continuing professional development. Consequently, strategies need to be explored to enable them to better maintain their competence. This article describes recent ... -
How Do Students Use Their Mobile Devices to Support Learning? A Case Study from an Australian Regional University
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2015)Though universities are eager to leverage the potential of mobile learning to provide learning flexibly, most balk at the cost of providing students with mobile hardware. The practice of ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) ...
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