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This chapter introduces an empirical study exploring any predictive relationship between IQ and dynamic risk factors for sexual offending, as measured by the Structured Assessment for Risk and Need (SARN). The study included 1462 adult males, convicted for a sexual offence and serving a custodial sentence. The full-scale IQ range was 48 (moderate intellectual disability) to 144 (very superior). The analysis found that there was a predictive relationship between increasing IQ and risk factors related to paedophilia (e.g. sexual interest in children) and decreasing IQ and risk factors not related to paedophilia. These results were unanticipated given the majority literature has reported a relationship between lower IQ and paedophilia (Cantor, Blanchard, Robichaud, & Christensen, Psychological Bulletin, 131, 555–568, 2005). Possible explanations and implications are discussed. |
