The Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders Scale: The Development of a Psychometric Assessment Instrument

By Wesley T. Church, Emily E. Wakeman, S. Miller, Carl B. Clements, Fei Sun. 2008

118 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. G. Willis
2. J. Levenson
3. Tony Ward
4. Sanna Malinen
5. Theresa A. Gannon
6. F. McNeill
7. E. Weaver
8. R. Tewksbury

In Sociology and Political Science

1. G. Willis
2. J. Levenson
3. Tony Ward
4. Sanna Malinen
5. Lucy Johnston
6. Theresa A. Gannon
7. R. Tewksbury
8. Jan Looman

Citations in the corpus

• Desistance and Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders: Facilitation or Hindrance? (2010, methodology): “Several methods have been used to assess attitudes, including multi item scales that provide an overall score reflecting where an individual’s attitude sits on a continuum ranging from very negative to very positive (Church et al. 2008; Hogue 1993; Weekes et al. 1995; Wnuk et al. 2006).”
• Demographic Differences in Public Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders (2013, background): “The CATSO items demonstrated sufficient internal consistency in the development sample (Cronbach’s alpha ¼ .74; Church et al., 2008) and in the present study (Cronbach’s alpha ¼ .76).”