The Impact of Polygraphy on Admissions of Victims and Offenses in Adult Sexual Offenders
| Autor: | Peggy Heil, Bonita McKee, Kim English, Sean Ahlmeyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Adult
Male 050103 clinical psychology medicine.medical_specialty Lie Detection Poison control Truth Disclosure Suicide prevention Polygraph Lie detection Injury prevention medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychiatry Crime Victims General Psychology Paraphilic Disorders Sex Offenses 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics Galvanic Skin Response Psychiatry and Mental health Sex offense 0509 other social sciences Psychology Psychosocial Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Sexual Abuse. 12:123-138 |
| ISSN: | 1573-286X 1079-0632 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/107906320001200204 |
| Popis: | Sexual offenders are extremely reluctant to disclose their offending histories for a variety of psychosocial and legal reasons. The polygraph has shown promise as a intervention for eliciting admissions of past sexual offending behaviors. For 60 adult male sexual offender (35 inmates and 25 parolees), the number of victims and offenses were recorded from the Presentence Investigative Report, Sexual History Disclosure form, and 2 consecutive polygraph examination reports. Dramatic increases in the number of admitted victims and offenses were found for inmates, but not for parolees, across each source. However, there was a substantial decline in the number of victim and offense admissions by the second polygraph examination for both groups, even though 80% of the examination results reveled deception about sexual offending behaviors. Standardized use of sanctions and privileges for deceptive and nondeceptive polygraph results, respectively, are proposed as a way of eliciting full disclosure of offending histories for these offenders. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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