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Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention
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Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention

2699-8440

Published by: Leibniz Institute for Psychology

https://sotrap.psychopen.eu/index.php/sotrap

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 1232 7 11 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 9
Documents by Best Scientists*: 13
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 6
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.356
Impact Factor: N/A

Top Publications

  • “Hurt people hurt other people”: The link between past trauma and sexual offending

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • Recidivism risk and criminogenic needs of individuals who perpetrated intimate partner sexual violence offenses

    Brandon Sparks;Farron Wielinga;Sandy Jung;Mark E. Olver

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Effective psychological treatment of adult male sexual offenders

    (2021)
    4 Citations
  • Temporal order of sexual offending is risk-relevant for individuals with child sexual exploitation materials offences

    (2022)
    3 Citations
  • Altruistic (costly) punishment as motivation for vindictive rape

    R. Karl Hanson

    (2020)
    2 Citations
  • Unraveling the neuropsychological underpinnings of self-regulation problems in individuals convicted of sexual offenses against children: A look into reinforcement learning

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Dynamic sexual offense risk assessment using the VRS-SO with indeterminate sentenced men

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • A cluster analytic examination and validation of adult victim sexual offending subtypes in two Canadian samples

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • Introduction to the Special Thematic Section on "Dynamic assessment of men facing indeterminate detention"

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • The Cumulation and Dissemination of Knowledge as Preconditions for Effective Crime Prevention Strategies in Forensic Sciences and Sex Research

    Martin Rettenberger;Mark E. Olver;L. Maaike Helmus;Reinhard Eher

    (2020)
    0 Citations

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