Doing cognitive distortions: A discursive psychology analysis of sex offender treatment talk

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 281-298

  Auburn, Timothy ^a   Lea, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DEVIATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARAPHILIAS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEX OFFENSES;

EID: 0141531005     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466603322127256     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Abel, G. G., Gore, D. K., Holland, C. L., Camp, N., Becker, J. V., & Rathner, J. (1989). The measurement of cognitive distortions of child molesters. Annals of Sex Research, 2, 135-152.
2. Blumenthal, S., Gudjonsson, G., & Burns, J. (1999). Cognitive distortions and blame attribution in sex offenders against adults and children. Child Abuse and Neglect, 23, 129-143.
3. Brownmiller, S. (1975). Against our will: Men, women and rape. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
4. Clark, N. K. (1993). Sex offenders: An overview. In N. K. Clark & G. M. Stephenson (Eds.), Context, assessment, and treatment of sex offenders (pp. 3-8). Leicester: British Psychological Society.
5. Edley, N., & Wetherell, M. (1999). Imagined futures: Young men's talk about fatherhood and domestic life. British Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 181-194.
6. Edwards, D. (1997). Discourse and cognition. London: Sage.
7. Edwards, D. (1998). The relevant thing about her: Social identity categories in use. In C. Antaki & S. Widdicombe (Eds.), Identities in talk (pp. 15-33). London: Sage.
8. Edwards, D., & Potter, J. (1992). Discursive psychology. London: Sage.
9. Field, H. S. (1978). Attitudes towards rape: A comparative analysis of police, rapists, crisis counsellors and citizens. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36(2), 156-179.
10. Grubin, D., & Thornton, D. (1994). A national program for the assessment and treatment of sex offenders in the English prison system. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 21(1), 55-71.
11. Hall, R. (1985). Ask any woman. London: Falling Wall Press.
12. Hanson, R. K., Gizzarelli, R., & Scott, H. (1994). The attitudes of incest offenders: Sexual entitlement and acceptance of sex with children. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 21, 187-202.
13. Heritage, J. (1984). Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
14. Hogue, T. (1997). Sex offence information questionnaire (SOIQ). Personal communication.
15. Hydén, M., & McCarthy, I. C. (1994). Woman battering and father-daughter incest disclosures: Discourses of denial and acknowledgement. Discourse and Society, 5(4), 543-565.
16. Murphy, W. D. (1990). Assessment and modification of cognitive distortions in sex offenders. In W. L Marshall, D. R. Laws, & H. E. Barbaree (Eds.), Handbook of sexual assault: Issues, theories and treatment of the offender (pp. 331 -342). New York: Plenum Press.
17. O'Connor, P. E. (1995). Speaking of crime: 'I don't know what made me do it'. Discourse and Society, 6(3), 429-456.
18. Penn, P., & Frankfurt, M. (1994). Creating a participant text: Writing, multiple voices, narrative multiplicity. Family Process, 33, 217-231.
19. Pollock, N. L., & Hashmall, J. M. (1991). The excuses of child molesters. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 9, 53-59.
20. Potter, J. (1996). Representing reality: Discourse, rhetoric and social construction. London: Sage.
21. Potter, J., & Wetherell, M. (1987). Discourse and social psychology: Beyond attitudes and behaviour. London: Sage.
22. Sacks, H. (1984). On doing 'Being Ordinary', In J. M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (Eds.), Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis (pp. 413-429). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
23. Scully, D., & Marolla, J. (1984). Convicted rapists' vocabulary of motive: Excuses and justifications. Social Problems, 31(5), 530-544.
24. Segal, Z. V., & Stermac, E. (1990). The role of cognition in sexual assault. In W. L. Marshall, D. R. Laws, & H. E. Barbaree (Eds.), Handbook of sexual assault: Issues, theories and treatment of the offender (pp. 161-174). New York: Plenum Press.
25. Thornton, D., & Hogue, T. (1993). The largest-scale provision of programmes for imprisoned sex offenders: Issues, dilemmas and progress. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 3, 371-380.
26. Ward, T., Hudson, S. M., Johnston, L., & Marshall, W. L. (1997). Cognitive distortions in sex offenders: An integrative review. Clinical Psychology Review, 17, 479-507.
27. Widdicombe, S., & Wooffitt, R. (1995). The language of youth subcultures: Social identity in action. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
28. Wooffitt, R. (1992). Telling tales of the unexpected: The organisation of factual discourse. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.