Sexual Sadism DSM 5 TR:  What counts as “sexual behavior involving suffering” Sexual Sadism DSM 5TR –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...

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...

There is little question that sexual arousal in children is a powerful predictor of sexual recidivism among adult abusers (Hanson & Bussiere, 1998; Hanson & Morton-Bourgon, 2004). However, the clarity appears to end there for risk classification purposes. Arousal to...