Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Access Criminology and Criminal Justice journals now

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Langevin, R.
Right arrow Articles by Majpruz, V.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Langevin, R.
Right arrow Articles by Majpruz, V.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Identifying Violence-Proneness in Sex Offenders

Ron Langevin, Ph.D.

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reuben A. Lang, Ph.D.

Institute of Psychology & Law Edmonton. Alberta, Canada

Percy Wright, MA

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lorraine Handy

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vicky Majpruz

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A total of 118 sex offenders were compared on two measures of violence-proneness (the Clarke Violence Scale or CVS and the Forensic Assessment of Violence or FAV) and the AECOM Coping Scales. The sex offenders were divided into 29 violent and 89 nonviolent cases, based on their criminal histories of sexual and assault offences. Both the CVS and FAV discriminated violent and nonviolent cases but improvements in the measures are needed. The AECOM Minimization, Mapping, and Reversal Coping Scales discriminated the two groups as well. The FAV results, especially, were influenced by test-taking response set. Distinctions between 'self-perceptions of violence' and 'violent behavior' are highlighted and discussed.

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, Vol. 2, No. 1, 49-66 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/107906328900200103
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?