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Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Deqiang GU, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |Age at release has become an increasing focus of study with regard to evaluating risk in the sex offender population and has been repeatedly shown to be an important component of the risk assessment equation. This study constitutes an extension [...]Article
Farron WIELINGA, Auteur ; Krystyn MARGEOTES, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur |The present study examined intimacy and loneliness, their etiological significance in sexual offending, viability as a treatment target, and their correlates with relevant psychological constructs and outcomes in a treated sample of 348 men conv[...]Article
Neil R. HOGAN, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur |This study examined the Council of State Governments five-level system for risk communication, as applied to the Static-99R and Violence Risk ScaleSexual Offense Version (VRS-SO). Aims of the system include increasing consistency in risk commu[...]Article
Donaldo D. CANALES, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |Previous studies have identified sexual deviance as a particularly strong predictor of sexual recidivism in sex offenders. The present study examined the construct validity (i.e., convergent and discriminant validity) of the three dynamic factor[...]Article
Ian V. McPHAIL, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur ; Andy HAYNES, Auteur |Pedophilic interest is a central risk factor for sexual offending against children. Multiple measures exist to assess pedophilic interest, and the present study aims to provide validity evidence for three of these measures in a sample of men con[...]Article
Theresa A. GANNON, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Jaimee S MALLION, Auteur ; Mark JAMES, Auteur |A meta-analysis was conducted to examine whether specialized psychological offense treatments were associated with reductions in offense specific and non-offense specific recidivism. Staff and treatment program moderators were also explored. The[...]Article
Nichola TYLER, Auteur ; Theresa A. GANNON, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur |Purpose of Review. We review and synthesize the literature on the effectiveness of offense-focused treatment for sexual offending. Specifically, we consider whether the extant literature suggests treatment is effective in reducing sexual reoffen[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Sarah M. BEGGS CHRISTOFFERSON, Auteur ; Randolph C. GRACE, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |We examined the use of risk-change information in sexual offender risk assessments featuring the Violence Risk ScaleSexual Offender version (VRS-SO), a sex offender risk assessment and treatment planning tool. The study featured a combined inte[...]Article
Erika Y. ROJAS, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur |The present study examined the association of juvenile psychopathy features and treatment response in a sample of 102 youth, court adjudicated for sexual offenses and followed up more than 11 years in the community. The Psychopathy Checkli[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Liam E. MARSHALL, Auteur ; William L. MARSHALL, Auteur ; Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur |This article describes an evaluation of the effects of an early version (1991-2001) of Rockwoods prison-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/RiskNeedsResponsivity (CBT/RNR) sex offender program that had emerging elements of a strength-based app[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; J. Stephen WORMITH, Auteur ; Keira C. STOCKDALE, Auteur |Objective: The failure of offenders to complete psychological treatment can pose significant concerns, including increased risk for recidivism. Although a large literature identifying predictors of offender treatment attrition has accumulated, t[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur ; Drew A. KINGSTON, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |Objective: We conducted a prospective multisite examination of sexual offender risk and treatment change on a large federal Canadian sample of 676 treated sex offenders followed up for an average of 6.31 years post release. Method: The present s[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Justina N SOWDEN, Auteur ; Drew A. KINGSTON, Auteur ; Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur ; Audrey GORDON, Auteur ; Sarah M. BEGGS CHRISTOFFERSON, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |The present study examined the predictive properties of Violence Risk ScaleSexual Offender version (VRS-SO) risk and change scores among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal sexual offenders in a combined sample of 1,063 Canadian federally incarcerate[...]Article
Allen AZIZIAN, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; James ROKOP, Auteur ; Deirdre M. D'ORAZIO, Auteur |We examined the recidivism rates and the predictive validity of the Static-99R in 335 men who were detained or civilly committed and released from California State Hospitals pursuant to the Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Act, and followed up fo[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur ; Deqiang GU, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |The present study is an examination of sex offender treatment outcome in a large national cohort of Canadian Federally incarcerated sex offenders followed up an average of 11.7 years postrelease. A brief actuarial risk scale (BARS), which predic[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Gabrielle KLEPFISZ, Auteur ; Keira C. STOCKDALE, Auteur ; Drew A. KINGSTON, Auteur ; Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |The present study was a psychometric examination of Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender version (VRS-SO; Wong, S., Olver, M. E., Nicholaichuk, T. P., & Gordon, A. (2003). The violence risk scale: Sexual offender version (VRS-SO). Saskatoon: Regi[...]Article
Ian V. McPHAIL, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Sébastien BROUILLETTE-ALARIE, Auteur ; Jan LOOMAN, Auteur |The present study examined the latent structure of pedophilic interest. Using data from phallometric tests for pedophilic interest across four samples of offenders (ns = 805, 632, 531, 261), taxometric analyses were conducted to iden[...]Thèse
The sexual abuse of women and children is a widespread problem. As such, it has become an important priority to advance risk assessment technology to identify high risk offenders to be targeted for treatment. The body of research involves the in[...]Article
Mark E. OLVER, Auteur ; Terry P. NICHOLAICHUK, Auteur ; Stephen C. P. WONG, Auteur |This study examined sex offender risk and treatment change based on a battery of psychometric assessment measures administered to 267 treated adult Canadian federal sex offenders followed up an average 18 years post release. Several significant [...]Article
Reinhard EHER, Auteur ; Sandra HOFER, Auteur ; Anna BUCHGEHER, Auteur ; Stefan DOMANY, Auteur ; Daniel TURNER, Auteur ; Mark E. OLVER, Auteur |Psychiatric diagnoses, static risk factors, and criminogenic needs at time of admission and release were examined in a mentally ill sample of psychiatrically detained sexual offenders. Although clinically found to be at low or even very low risk[...]