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Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; David PRESCOTT, Auteur |This study explored the prevalence of early trauma in a sample of U.S. female sexual offenders (N = 47) using the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) scale. Compared with females in the general population, sex offenders had more than three times[...]Article
Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; David S. PRESCOTT, Auteur |This study explored the prevalence of childhood trauma in a sample of male sexual offenders (N = 679) using the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) scale. Compared with males in the general population, sex offenders had more than 3 times the odds[...]Article
Svenja GÖBBELS, Auteur ; Tony WARD, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur |Despite the fact that most offenders eventually desist from committing further crimes, there is an absence of comprehensive psychological and social accounts of the desistance process, beginning at the point when an individual decides to stop fu[...]Article
Thomas NOLAN, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; David THORNTON, Auteur ; Sharon M. KELLEY, Auteur ; Sarah M. BEGGS CHRISTOFFERSON, Auteur |Sexual recidivism risk assessment tools focus almost exclusively on risk factors associated with increased rates of recidivism and do not attend to protective factors that might mitigate reoffense risk. The present study investigated the predict[...]Article
Angela E. CARR, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur |Current research provides little evidence for the effectiveness of treatment in reducing sexual offence recidivism amongst low-risk populations. However, in real-world correctional settings, program delivery rarely occurs in a vacuum, treatment [...]Article
Sharon M. KELLEY, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; David THORNTON, Auteur |The Structured Assessment of PROtective Factors against Sexual Offending (SAPROF-SO) is a new assessment tool designed to capture protective factors for individuals with a history of sexual offenses and aligns with a strengths-based approach to [...]Article
Svenja GÖBBELS, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Tony WARD, Auteur |Little is known about current re-entry practices, nor the extent to which they facilitate re-entry, reintegration and, ultimately, desistance from future offending. Göbbels, Ward and Willis recently developed the Integrative Theory of Desistance[...]Article
Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; Tony WARD, Auteur |In an ideal world, there would be a seamless relationship between interventions that focus on risk factors causally associated with sexual reoffending and the subsequent release of, and ongoing support for, offenders into the community. However,[...]Article
Giulia LOWE, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur |Stigma directed towards persons with convictions for sexual offences and its potentially risk enhancing effects has prompted a growing body of research on public attitudes towards individuals who have sexually offended, including attitude measur[...]Article
Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur |Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are common in the histories of individuals who have sexually offended. Many risk factors for sexual recidivism resemble symptoms of early trauma, and early trauma may present a responsivity barrier to engageme[...]Article
Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Pamela M. YATES, Auteur ; Theresa A. GANNON, Auteur ; Tony WARD, Auteur |The good lives model (GLM) represents a new theoretical framework informing sex offender treatment programs; however, substantial variation has been observed in terms of how GLM-related ideas and practices have been applied. Integrated appropria[...]Article
Giulia LOWE, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur |In Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA), trained volunteers support an individual convicted for sexual offenses to reintegrate safely into the community. Developed in Canada, CoSA has been established in many jurisdictions with a growing[...]Article
David S. PRESCOTT, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Tony WARD, Auteur |Since the Good Lives Models (GLM) inception, researchers and practitioners have faced questions about its implementation. Programs claiming to use the GLM vary substantially in the extent to which the GLM informs treatment, and no tools exist t[...]Article
Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Claudia P VICENCIO, Auteur |Persons with potentially harmful sexual interests such as attraction to minors are unlikely to seek or receive treatment before a sexual offense has been committed. The current study explored barriers to help-seeking in a sample of 372 individua[...]Article
Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Lucy JOHNSTON, Auteur |Recent research has demonstrated that poor release planning is associated with sex offender recidivism; however, whether release planning correlates with actual re-entry experiences has not been investigated systematically. Accordingly, in the p[...]Article
Sandra DICKSON, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur |The extensive and sometimes profoundly damaging effects of sexual violence and large numbers of victims necessitate dedicated attention to primary prevention efforts. Few studies have examined the scope of current prevention activities or their [...]Article
Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; David S. PRESCOTT, Auteur ; Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur |Vicarious trauma and burnout are not uncommon among therapists working with individuals who have sexually abused, which highlights the importance of workplace support. The current study aimed to explore sexual offending treatment providers expe[...]Article
Giulia LOWE, Auteur ; Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur |The present study examined the effect of offense-based labels on community members willingness to volunteer with people convicted for varying offenses and any priming effect of labeling language. Participants (N = 310) were randomly assigned to[...]Article
Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Tony WARD, Auteur |The good lives model (GLM) is a strengths-based approach to offender rehabilitation in which treatment aims to equip offenders with the skills and resources necessary to satisfy primary goods, or basic human values, in personally meaningful and [...]Article
Gwenda M. WILLIS, Auteur ; Tony WARD, Auteur ; Jill LEVENSON, Auteur |The good lives model (GLM) has become an increasingly popular theoretical framework underpinning sex offender treatment programs, and preliminary research suggests that the GLM may enhance the efficacy of programs that adhere to the Risk, Need, [...]