PSYC 3402 Lecture 8: Lecture 8.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3402
• Professor: Julie Blais

Document Summary

Etiology- factors that might cause someone to become (distinguish between someone who has not offended who might offend) Recidivism- person has offended and been caught, predicts who will continue to reoffend. Legislated policies to manage high risk offenders. 8 to 24% of women and 0. 6 to 7% for men (koss, 1993) Unwanted touching and assaults in last year (brennan & taylor-butts, 2008: child sexual abuse (finkelhor, 1994) 20% of girls and 5 to 10% of boys. Uniform crime reporting (ucr) survey (canadian centre for justice statistics, 2007: reflects reported crime that has been substantiated through police investigation. In 2007, 24,200 incidents of sexual offences (73/100,000: sex offences are 1% of offenses that go through the cjs. Most common (fail to comply with probation and parole) . 7 + . 4 (even though it"s such a small proportion, it"s one of the ones people are most concerned about) 2,947 sex offenders under federal jurisdiction (motiuk & vuong, 2005)