A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Child-Sex Offender Recidivism

该项目对预防、预测和治疗针对儿童性犯罪具有重要意义。可通过确定与性犯罪的发生和再次犯罪有关的个人、人际和情景因素来制定新的预防战略。更好的预测模型可用于为申请与儿童一起工作的个人进行风险评估、涉及儿童性犯罪者的判刑决定以及关于是否适合释放儿童性犯罪者的决定提供信息。最后，通过更好地了解累犯涉及的风险因素，可以开发出更有效的治疗方法。

The project has important implications for the prevention, prediction and treatment of sexual offences against children. New prevention strategies may be devised through the identification of individual, interpersonal and situational factors involved in sexual offence onset and recidivism. Better prediction models may be used to inform risk assessments for individuals applying to work with children, sentencing decisions involving child-sex offenders, and decisions about the suitability for release of child-sex offenders from prison. Finally, more effective approaches to treatment may be developed from a better understanding of risk factors involved in recidivism.