RT Article
T1 Emotional States Related to Sexual Offending Versus Violent Offending Using a Schema Therapy Perspective
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 68
IS 12
SP 1179
OP 1196
A1 Keulen-de Vos, Marije
A2 Herzog-Evans, Martine 1963-
A2 Benbouriche, Massil 1988-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898483744
AB The aim of this study was to examine the emotional states preceding and during sexual and violent offenses in a Dutch sample of male forensic inpatients. Moreover, the predictive impact of these emotional states on institutional violence in the first year of mandated care was examined using an incident scheme. Observer-ratings of emotional states by 103 male offenders and 97 sex offenders were examined using Mann-Whitney U tests. Using hierarchical multiple regression analyses, the predictive relationship between crime-related emotional states and incidents was examined. Sexual and violent crimes were equally preceded by painful emotions, primarily feelings of abandonment. During violent crimes, a state of bully and attack was dominant whereas sexual crimes were also characterized by self-aggrandizement and manipulation. These emotional states were not predictive for institutional violence. This study emphasizes the importance of emotional states in offending behavior and usefulness of schema therapy’s crime theory.
K1 schema therapy
K1 incidents
K1 Violence
K1 Sexual Violence
K1 emotional states
DO 10.1177/0306624X221110799