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Chapter 13 - Sexual Offending

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

By
Danny H. Sullivan
Edited by
Mary Davoren  and
Harry G. Kennedy
Mary Davoren
Affiliation:
Broadmoor Hospital and West London NHS Trust
Harry G. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
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Summary

Sexual offending is astonishingly prevalent and is associated with significant mental health and psychosocial consequences for victims. It is also the basis of a range of severe criminal justice sanctions, which in various jurisdictions can include indeterminate sentences as well as post-sentence restrictions. Of all forms of offending, it is sexual offending which is most stigmatised and despised, and this may lead to vigilantism and persecution of offenders or those perceived to be offenders [1].

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Forensic psychiatrySex offending
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Seminars in Forensic Psychiatry , pp. 323 - 332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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