Rehabilitating Sex Offenders: Our Approach Offenders must learn responsible behavior, and our treatment programs use various techniques to help them rehabilitate. Through treatment, sex offenders come to understand the damaging effects of their behavior and develop empathy for the victim....

There is some evidence that individuals can gain voluntary control over their sexual arousal patterns through behavioral conditioning, such that someone who is attracted to “underage” persons could learn to suppress their sexual arousal to the underage category. There is...

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...