Attitudes towards sex offenders and the influence of offence type: a comparison of staff working in a forensic setting and students

By K. Ferguson, C. Ireland. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies

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In Clinical Psychology

1. G. Willis
2. J. Levenson
3. T. Hogue
4. C. Harper
5. Ross M. Bartels
6. Tony Ward
7. Sanna Malinen
8. Theresa A. Gannon

In Gender Studies

1. G. Willis
2. T. Hogue
3. C. Harper
4. Tony Ward
5. Ross M. Bartels

Citations in the corpus

• Attitudes towards sexual offenders: what do we know, and why are they important? (2017, background): “…in a range of jurisdictions, including the U.K., Australia/New Zealand, and Norway) have indicated differences in attitudes based on gender (Ferguson & Ireland, 2006; Higgins & Ireland, 2009; Radley, 2011; Willis et al., 2013), and age (Brown, 1999; Craig, 2005; Kjelsberg & Loos, 2008),…”
• The Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders Scale: The Development of a Psychometric Assessment Instrument (2008, methodology): “…of contact, if any, the forensic staff had with sex offenders at their facility, it appears that exposure to sex offenders (e.g., via personal or vicarious experience) influences attitudes toward this population, thereby decreasing the inclination to rely on stereotypes (Ferguson & Ireland, 2006).”
• Desistance and Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders: Facilitation or Hindrance? (2010, background): “In one of the few studies differentiating different types of sex offenders, Ferguson and Ireland (2006) gave participants a vignette that manipulated offender type: stranger rapist, acquaintance rapist, stranger victim pedophile, or familial victim pedophile.”
• Demographic Differences in Public Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders (2013, background): “…have either found no difference in attitudes between participants reporting familiarity with victims and/or perpetrators of sexual assault (Brown, 1999; Sahlstrom & Jeglic, 2008), or found that familiarity was associated with less-negative attitudes (Ferguson & Ireland, 2006; Nelson et al., 2002).”
• The Complexity of Public Attitudes Toward Sex Crimes (2017, unknown): “A somewhat surprising correlate is previous victimization, which has been shown to predict more lenient attitudes toward sex offenders in some studies (Ferguson & Ireland, 2006; Nelson, Herlihy, & Oescher, 2002).”