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dc.contributor.authorLeclerc, Benoit
dc.contributor.authorWortley, Richard
dc.contributor.authorSmallbone, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:51:48Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:51:48Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-07-01T06:57:33Z
dc.identifier.issn0047-2352
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.04.038
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/38914
dc.description.abstractIn the present study, geographic mobility exhibited by child sex offenders was examined. Geographic mobility was defined as the use of multiple locations to obtain repetitive sexual contact with the same victim. The sample consisted of 77 adult offenders convicted for having committed a sexual offence against a child, and who agreed to provide confidential self-report data concerning their offending behaviours. Based on a set of offence characteristics, offenders who used a single location were compared to offenders who used multiple locations for sexual contact. Results showed that offenders who used multiple locations are more likely to isolate the victim, use violence, involve the victim in several sexual episodes, abuse the victim for a period exceeding one year, and make the victim participate and perform sexual behaviours on them during sexual episodes. Examining more closely offenders who used multiple locations for abuse, three offence patterns were further identified (i.e., familial-low mobility offence, non familial-high mobility offence, and familial-high mobility offence). Going for a car ride was also found to be a common location/situation used in the familial-low mobility offence subgroup, while the use of outdoor locations on a regular basis was found to be rare in high mobility patterns subgroups.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom648
dc.relation.ispartofpageto656
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Criminal Justice
dc.relation.ispartofvolume38
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440299
dc.titleInvestigating mobility patterns for repetitive sexual contact in adult child sex offending
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
gro.rights.copyright© 2010 Elsevier. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorSmallbone, Stephen W.
gro.griffith.authorLeclerc, Benoit


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