Sexual offenders' cognitive distortions as implicit theories

By Tony Ward. 2000

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1. Tony Ward
2. R. Mann
3. A. Beech
4. G. Willis
5. W. L. Marshall
6. Shadd Maruna
7. Lila Kazemian
8. I. Elliott

Citations in the corpus

• A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions † (2006, background): “Authors have broadened the concept of cognitive distortion in different ways; for example, using the term to describe general antisocial thinking (Ward, 2000).”
• What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research? (2005, background): “Others have linked self-narratives to an "implicit theory" or a "theory of reality" akin to the theories used to explain, predict, and interpret in the world of science (Epstein and Erskine 1983; Ward 2000).”
• The good lives model of offender rehabilitation: Clinical implications (2007, background): “…has developed in sophistication and effectiveness over the last twenty years or so and the field is starting to converge on the principles underlying good clinical practice (Beech & Mann, 2002; Hanson et al., 2002; Laws, Hudson, & Ward, 2000; Marshall, 2004; Marshall, Anderson, & Fernandez, 1999).”
• Understanding online child pornography use: Applying sexual offense theory to internet offenders (2009, background): “Ward and Beech (2006) note that the ecological niche can act both: distally, where childhood influences affect the psychological and social development of the individual by directly and negatively affecting the core functional systems, leading to problems such as psychological disorders, poor social”
• The integration of etiology and risk in sexual offenders: A theoretical framework (2004, background): “, trait factors), while cognitive products are state factors generated by combining environmental events and longstanding cognitive structures (Ward, 2000; Ward et al., 1997).”
• Desistance From Crime (2007, background): “The literature on sex offending and cognitive–behavioral programs has investigated the role of other cognitive predispositions in the explanation of offending behavior (see Abel, Becker, & Cunningham-Rathner, 1984; Abel et al., 1989; Barriga, Landau, Stinson, Liau, & Gibbs, 2000; Bumby, 1996; Marsha”
• Racist Incident–Based Trauma (2005, background): “Perpetrators of racist incidents and rape who do not face justice are left with dysfunctional cognitive beliefs that maintain their delusions of superiority (Ward, 2000).”
• The multi-trajectory theory of adult firesetting (M-TTAF) (2012, background): “In other areas of forensic psychology (e.g., sexual offending; Polaschek & Gannon, 2004; Ward, 2000; Ward & Keenan, 1999) it is widely accepted that some offenders hold offense-supportive schemas or “theories” that guide their processing of social information in an offense-supportive manner.”
• An integrative theory of desistance from sex offending (2012, background): “It builds on recent work by Laws andWard (2011) that establishes a connection between offender rehabilitation and offenders' decisions to live offense free lives.”
• The measurement and influence of child sexual abuse supportive beliefs (2007, background): “Ward (2000) reaches the same conclusion as Abel et al. (1989), that offence-supportive beliefs will strengthen as offending persists over time.”
• The role of cognitive distortions in paedophilic offending: Internet and contact offenders compared (2007, background): “The sophistication of our understanding of the role of cognitive distortions in offending is not great (Ward et al., 2006).”
• Assessing female sexual offenders’ motivations and cognitions: an exploratory study (2009, background): “Qualitative analysis indicated that four of the five motivational schemas (implicit theories) suggested by Ward (Ward, 2000; Ward & Keenan, 1999) to underlie male sexual offenders’ cognitions could be clearly identified in women, these were: Uncontrollability (UN, identified in 87% of participants),”
• Identification of five fundamental implicit theories underlying cognitive distortions in child abusers: A preliminary study (2006, background): “It is expected that these offenders’ implicit theories evolve over a greater period of time, along with higher levels of deviant sexual arousal, and may be more developed in regard to their complexity and cohesiveness (Ward, 2000).”