A Brief Screening Scale to Identify Pedophilic Interests Among Child Molesters

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Antisociality, Sexual Deviance, and Sexual Reoffending in Juvenile Sex Offenders (2008, background): “Interestingly, these factors are related to the presence of a sexual preference for children measured phallometrically (Lussier, Beauregard, & Proulx, 2000; Seto & Lalumière, 2001).”
Assessing Risk for Sexual Recidivism: Some Proposals on the Nature of Psychologically Meaningful Risk Factors (2010, background): “Pedophilic interests can be identified by self-report, offense history (e.g., Seto & Lalumière, 2001), and specialized testing (e.g., phallometry).”
Dimensions Associated with Assessments of Sex Offender Recidivism Risk (2002, background): “In that study of 287 halfway-house and outpatient sex offenders, a third factor (in addition to Antisociality and Sexual Deviancy) was labeled by the researchers as Immaturity (including the variables of no marital history, younger than 25 years old, history of failure to complete mandated treatment”