Sexual Sadism DSM 5 TR:  What counts as “sexual behavior involving suffering” Sexual Sadism DSM-5-TR: As I interpret it, the DSM-5TR Sadism Disorder narrative permits evaluators to infer that sexual arousal from suffering is present where there is a history...

Special Thanks: Janis Wolak and David Finkelhor A new University of New Hampshire study challenges the view that online predators are a distinctly dangerous variety of sex offenders, requiring special programs to protect youth. The study from the UNH Crimes...

Adolescence and The Law – Current Challenges Offices are in Dallas, Preston Hollow/Medical City, Texas. (214) 431-2032 The new issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal *Current Directions in Psychological Science* is a special issue devoted to “The Teenage...

HOW OFTEN IS THE CRIMINAL ABUSER TRULY AN ABUSED PERSON? Criminals: Victims of Abuse? Constantly, I encounter the view that people become abusers because they were themselves abused. This is part of what has come to be an accepted theory...

In the wake of recent high-profile sexual abuse cases, people are struggling to make sense of these situations and reconcile the allegations with their previously held views of particular people, institutions, and the nature of child sexual abuse. Sexual abuse...