Reporting sexual assault: a social ecology perspective
In: Criminal justice : recent scholarship
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In: Criminal justice : recent scholarship
In: Criminal justice : recent scholarship
In: Sexual abuse: official journal of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Band 23, Heft 2, S. 171-192
ISSN: 1573-286X
This study examined whether psychopathy moderated the relationship between time in treatment and forms of empathy in a sample of incarcerated male sexual offenders ( N = 58). Empathy was assessed as a general personality trait as well as in attitudes toward specific victim groups (children, women).The three empathy measures were submitted to principal components analysis with oblique rotation, revealing a 3-component solution: general empathy, hostility toward women, and empathy for children. Hierarchical linear regression analyses demonstrated that level of psychopathy significantly moderated the effects of time in treatment on levels of general and victim-specific empathy, such that offenders with higher levels of psychopathy did not exhibit greater empathy with longer reported time in treatment. In contrast, offenders with lower levels of psychopathy exhibited greater empathy with longer time in treatment. Implications for treatment planning for sexual offenders are discussed.