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dc.contributor.authorHicks, Rachel
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-04T15:39:32Z
dc.date.available2022-04-04T15:39:32Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationHarper, C. A. & Hicks, R. (2022). The effect of attitudes towards individuals with sexual convictions on professional and student risk judgments. Sexual Abuse, DOI: 10.1177/10790632211070799en_US
dc.identifier.other10.1177/10790632211070799
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/15313
dc.description.abstractAttitudes towards individuals with sexual convictions is an area with growing research interest, but the effects of such attitudes on professional judgments is largely unexplored. What is known from the existing literature is that attitudes guide the interpretation of sexual crime related information, which cascade into potential biased or heuristically driven judgments. In this study we recruited samples of both students (n = 341) and forensic professionals (n = 186) to explore whether attitudes towards individuals with sexual convictions predicted risk judgments of hypothetical sexual offense scenarios, and whether this relationship is moderated by professional status or perpetrator characteristics. Forensic professionals expressed more positive attitudes overall, but the significant effect of attitudes on risk judgments was consistent between participant groups and was not moderated by perpetrator age or sex. We suggest that relying on attitudes as a basis for risk judgments opens the door to incorrect (and potentially dangerous) decision-making and discuss our data in terms of their potential clinical implications. An open-access preprint of this work is available at https://psyarxiv.com/rjt5h/.
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10790632211070799en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectRisk assessmenten_US
dc.subjectSex offensesen_US
dc.titleThe effect of attitudes towards individuals with sexual convictions on professional and student risk judgmentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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refterms.dateFirstOnline28/02/2022
html.description.abstractAttitudes towards individuals with sexual convictions is an area with growing research interest, but the effects of such attitudes on professional judgments is largely unexplored. What is known from the existing literature is that attitudes guide the interpretation of sexual crime related information, which cascade into potential biased or heuristically driven judgments. In this study we recruited samples of both students (n = 341) and forensic professionals (n = 186) to explore whether attitudes towards individuals with sexual convictions predicted risk judgments of hypothetical sexual offense scenarios, and whether this relationship is moderated by professional status or perpetrator characteristics. Forensic professionals expressed more positive attitudes overall, but the significant effect of attitudes on risk judgments was consistent between participant groups and was not moderated by perpetrator age or sex. We suggest that relying on attitudes as a basis for risk judgments opens the door to incorrect (and potentially dangerous) decision-making and discuss our data in terms of their potential clinical implications. An open-access preprint of this work is available at https://psyarxiv.com/rjt5h/.
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