Self-regulation and the etiology of sexual deviance: Evaluating causal theory

Violence and Victims

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-51

  Stinson, Jill D ^a   Becker, Judith V ^b   Sales, Bruce D ^b  

^a Fulton State Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Etiology of sex offending; Multimodal self regulation theory; Self regulation model; Sex offenders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPATHY; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DEVIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARAPHILIAS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX OFFENSES;

EID: 44649110166     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.23.1.35     Document Type: Article

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