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Jamie R. YODER, Auteur ; Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Adam BROWN, Auteur ; Rebecca DILLARD, Auteur |There is a strong theoretical and research base demonstrating the link between attachment styles and adolescent sexual offending. However, this relationship may be best explained by deficit-based mediational pathways including criminogenic needs[...]Article
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Daniel EDWARDS, Auteur ; Carrie PETTUS-DAVIS, Auteur ; Jennifer ABRAMSON, Auteur |A common critique of program evaluations of prison-based sex offender treatment holds that the samples inherently show selection bias because the participants typically volunteer for treatment. To address this critique, we used propensity score [...]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
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
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Daniel EDWARDS, Auteur ; Carrie PETTUS-DAVIS, Auteur |Sex offender outcome studies continue to produce mixed results. A common critique of these studies is their lack of methodological rigor. This study attempts to address this critique by adhering to the standards established by the Collaborative [...]Article
Jamie R. YODER, Auteur ; Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Rebecca DILLARD, Auteur |Grady, Levenson, and Bolder’s etiological framework contextualizes sexual offending behaviors through a trauma and attachment lens to suggest child abuse experiences (CAE) are associated with attachment problems that contribute to sexual offendi[...]Article
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Kimberly STROM-GOTTFRIED, Auteur |Therapeutic practice with sex offenders and similarly ostracized populations presents unique personal, clinical, and professional challenges for clinicians. This article examines four areas of difficulty—treatment efficacy, clinical competence, [...]Article
Gary S. CUDDEBACK, Auteur ; Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Amy BLANK WILSON, Auteur ; Tonya VAN DEINSE, Auteur ; Joseph P. MORRISSEY, Auteur |Individuals who have committed sex offenses (ISOs) with severe mental illnesses are a complex population to serve and more research is needed to guide practice and policy, especially around community supervision, enrollment in Medicaid, housing,[...]Article
Jamie R. YODER, Auteur ; Adam BROWN, Auteur ; Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Rebecca DILLARD, Auteur ; Natalie KENNEDY, Auteur |Among youth who commit sexual crimes, childhood trauma experiences have been linked to a host of outcomes including trauma symptom expression. Furthermore, research has begun assessing differential rates of cumulative adverse childhood experienc[...]Article
Jill S. LEVENSON, Auteur ; Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur |The primary aim of this exploratory research was to gain information from minor-attracted persons (MAPs) about their (a) formal and informal experiences with help-seeking for minor attraction, (b) perceived barriers to seeking help for concerns [...]Article
Jamie R. YODER, Auteur ; Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Madison PRECHT, Auteur |Few research studies examine how the relationship between trauma and executive functioning can influence sexual violence among youth. Knight and Sims-Knight (2004) proposed a Developmental Etiological Theory (DET) connecting early life physical [...]Article
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Laura SWETT, Auteur ; Joseph J. SHIELDS, Auteur |The purpose of this study was to test whether attachment styles change over the course of a sex offender-specific treatment programme for incarcerated adult male sex offenders. To measure attachment styles, 44 male sex offenders (treatment n = 2[...]Article
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Joseph J. SHIELDS, Auteur |Using attachment theory as an explanatory theory for sexual offending, this cross-sectional study examined the relationship between attachment and emotion regulation capacities utilising data that were collected from 59 incarcerated adult male s[...]Article
Tanya RENN, Auteur ; Christopher VEEH, Auteur ; Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; David EDWARDS, Auteur ; Carrie PETTUS-DAVIS, Auteur ; Katherine KELTON, Auteur |Increasing the effectiveness of programs designed to treat individuals who have sexually offended is a critical step in reducing the rates of sexual violence in our communities. Yet, the research on such programs have yielded inconsistent result[...]Article
Melissa D. GRADY, Auteur ; Miriam BRODERSEN, Auteur ; Jennifer ABRAMSON, Auteur |The core treatment targets (CTTs) in sex offender treatment programs across much of North America are relatively consistent. These interventions address deficits such as cognitive distortions, victim empathy, and problem-solving. Such deficit ar[...]
