The Emotional Experience behind Sexually Offending in Context: Affective States before, during, and after Crime Events
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The Emotional Experience behind Sexually Offending in Context : Affective States before, during, and after Crime Events. / Leclerc, Benoit; Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz.
I: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Bind 55, Nr. 2, 2018, s. 242-277.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Emotional Experience behind Sexually Offending in Context
T2 - Affective States before, during, and after Crime Events
AU - Leclerc, Benoit
AU - Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Objectives: The current study focused on the role of affective states in adultsexual offending. We look at the prevalence of a range of affective statesthroughout sexual crime events. We break down the crime event intothree stages—immediately before, during, and after the offense. We examinetransitions of affective states—stage by stage—but also across victims.Finally, we investigate the impact of situational factors on affective states.Method: The sample consisted of a total of 553 adult males who had beenconvicted of a sexual offense. Self-report data on sexual crime events werecollected from these offenders. Apart from descriptive and bivariate analysis,“affective state-switching patterns” are investigated through transition1 School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University,Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, theNetherlands3 Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, DenmarkCorresponding Author:Benoit Leclerc, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Mt GravattCampus, Brisbane, Queensland 4111, Australia.Email: b.leclerc@griffith.edu.auJournal of Research in Crime andDelinquency1-36ª The Author(s) 2017Reprints and permission:sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.navDOI: 10.1177/0022427817743783journals.sagepub.com/home/jrcmatrices. Results: Findings show large variations in affective states before,during, and after the offense but show little variation across victims. Alcoholusage and offender–victim relationship were related to affective states ofoffenders. Conclusions: We conclude that the found association betweenaffective states and decision-making of sexual offenders calls for moreresearch on within crime event variations especially, and future researchshould focus on causal mechanisms related to affective states
AB - Objectives: The current study focused on the role of affective states in adultsexual offending. We look at the prevalence of a range of affective statesthroughout sexual crime events. We break down the crime event intothree stages—immediately before, during, and after the offense. We examinetransitions of affective states—stage by stage—but also across victims.Finally, we investigate the impact of situational factors on affective states.Method: The sample consisted of a total of 553 adult males who had beenconvicted of a sexual offense. Self-report data on sexual crime events werecollected from these offenders. Apart from descriptive and bivariate analysis,“affective state-switching patterns” are investigated through transition1 School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University,Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, theNetherlands3 Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, DenmarkCorresponding Author:Benoit Leclerc, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Mt GravattCampus, Brisbane, Queensland 4111, Australia.Email: b.leclerc@griffith.edu.auJournal of Research in Crime andDelinquency1-36ª The Author(s) 2017Reprints and permission:sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.navDOI: 10.1177/0022427817743783journals.sagepub.com/home/jrcmatrices. Results: Findings show large variations in affective states before,during, and after the offense but show little variation across victims. Alcoholusage and offender–victim relationship were related to affective states ofoffenders. Conclusions: We conclude that the found association betweenaffective states and decision-making of sexual offenders calls for moreresearch on within crime event variations especially, and future researchshould focus on causal mechanisms related to affective states
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - sexual offending
KW - affective states
KW - sexual crime events
KW - offender decisionmaking
KW - emotions
U2 - 10.1177/0022427817743783
DO - 10.1177/0022427817743783
M3 - Journal article
VL - 55
SP - 242
EP - 277
JO - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
JF - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
SN - 0022-4278
IS - 2
ER -
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