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Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur | 2011
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Rachel E. KAHN, Auteur ; Krystine JACKSON, Auteur ; Kerry KEISER, Auteur ; Gina AMBROZIAK, Auteur ; Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur |Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are increasingly recognized as a public health crisis. Cumulative effects of these experiences lead to a wide range of deleterious physical and psychological outcomes. Prior research has identified higher pre[...]Article
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
Kelly M. SOCIA, Auteur ; Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; Alissa A. ACKERMAN, Auteur ; Andrew J. R. HARRIS, Auteur |The transience of registered sex offenders (RSOs) is a major impediment to reentry success, particularly because it has been linked to increased absconding and recidivism, and thus decreased community safety. Unfortunately, there is limited exis[...]Article
Jill LEVENSON, Auteur |This article addresses ethical questions and issues related to the treatment of sex offenders in denial, using the empirical research literature and the ethical codes of American Psychological Association (APA) and National Association of Social[...]Article
Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; Alissa A. ACKERMAN, Auteur ; Andrew J. R. HARRIS, Auteur |The presumed dangers presented by sex offenders who have absconded from authorities have played a prominent role in public discourse surrounding state and federal sex offender management policy. The current study is the first to empirically inve[...]Article
Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur ; Kristen M. ZGOBA, Auteur |The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of sexual offender management policies on sex crime repeat arrest rates in Florida. Aggregate data for the period 1990 to 2010 were provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Th[...]Article
Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; David PRESCOTT, Auteur ; Shan JUMPER, Auteur |The purpose of this study was to obtain feedback from civilly committed sex offenders (N = 113) about the components of treatment that they believed to be most important and helpful in preventing reoffense. Participants were also asked to rate t[...]Article
Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; David PRESCOTT, Auteur |The notion that sex offender treatment does not work fuels public outrage and demands for protective legislation. This paper will respond to a recent meta-analysis reporting major weaknesses in research designs that preclude drawing conclusions [...]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
Devin COWAN, Auteur ; Kristen M. ZGOBA, Auteur ; Rob T GUERETTE, Auteur ; Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur |Much attention has been paid to the examination of community sentiment regarding convicted sex offenders and the policy that governs these offenders’ behavior. This literature, however, has largely been absent of international comparisons of sex[...]Article
Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; Mark J. MACGOWAN, Auteur |This study investigates the relationship between engagement, denial, and treatment progress among a sample of 61 male sex offenders in outpatient group therapy. Three hypotheses were posed: (1) that denial is inversely related to engagement in g[...]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
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur ; Jessica GLOVER, Auteur ; Shelley KAVANAGH, Auteur ; Katharine CARTER, Auteur |Background: A growing body of research documents the high rates of trauma among individuals who have sexually offended. Yet the relationship between prior victimization and subsequent sexual offending remained unclear. Objective: By including th[...]Article
As we move forward in the field of sex offender treatment, clinicians should consider incorporating principles of trauma-informed care (TIC) into evidence-based sex offender treatment models. Early adverse experiences are prevalent in the genera[...]Article
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur ; Jessica GLOVER, Auteur ; Shelley KAVANAGH, Auteur |A growing body of literature indicates that individuals who commit sexual offences have significant histories of childhood trauma. Clinicians who provide sex-offending treatment (SOTX) are increasingly asked to integrate trauma-informed principl[...]Article
Danielle Arlanda HARRIS, Auteur ; Jill LEVENSON, Auteur |In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of increasingly restrictive laws managing the post release behavior and movement of individuals convicted of sexual offenses. In the US, this legislation has led to many barriers for people retur[...]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
Ron KOKISH, Auteur ; Jill LEVENSON, Auteur ; Gerry D. BLASINGAME, Auteur |Post-conviction polygraph testing of adult sex offenders in treatment has been a somewhat controversial subject. This study (n = 95 participants who took 333 polygraph tests) explored how sexual offenders enrolled in outpatient treatment program[...]
