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A Reply to the NSW Royal Commission Inquiry into Paedophilia: Victim Report Studies and Child Sex Offender Profiles — A Bad ...

A Reply to the NSW Royal Commission Inquiry into Paedophilia: Victim Report Studies and Child Sex... This article questions the validity of the fixated/regressed classificationscheme of child sex offenders used by the Royal Commission into the New SouthWales Police Service. Since the scheme is based on incar-cerated offenderprofiles, it does not accord with empirical data derived from victim reportstudies, and is contradicted by a number of other studies on the sexualbehaviour of child sex offenders. The article discusses how the classificationscheme appears to have been influential in the Royal Commission's decision tofocus its inquiry into paedophilia on the activities of homosexual, fixatedoffenders. As a result of this focus, the Royal Commission engaged in verylittle analysis of the extent of child sexual abuse within the family and abuseconcerning female children in general. The article concludes by questioning someof the Royal Commission's recommendations for the future policing of childsexual abuse within New South Wales. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1999 The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486589903200105
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Abstract

This article questions the validity of the fixated/regressed classificationscheme of child sex offenders used by the Royal Commission into the New SouthWales Police Service. Since the scheme is based on incar-cerated offenderprofiles, it does not accord with empirical data derived from victim reportstudies, and is contradicted by a number of other studies on the sexualbehaviour of child sex offenders. The article discusses how the classificationscheme appears to have been influential in the Royal Commission's decision tofocus its inquiry into paedophilia on the activities of homosexual, fixatedoffenders. As a result of this focus, the Royal Commission engaged in verylittle analysis of the extent of child sexual abuse within the family and abuseconcerning female children in general. The article concludes by questioning someof the Royal Commission's recommendations for the future policing of childsexual abuse within New South Wales.

Journal

Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Apr 1, 1999

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