OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sexual Abuse-A Journal of Research and Treatment is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining the Unexplainable: Balancing Responsibility, Expectations, and Identity in Narratives of Sexual Recidivism	18
What About Language?: A Mixed Methods Examination of the Impact of Person-Centered Language on Students’ Perceptions of Individuals Who Commit Sex Offenses	15
Why Men (Don’t) Buy Sex: Purity Moralization and Perceived Harm as Constraints on Prostitution Offending	14
Sexual Offense Disclosure Assessment in Youth Referred to Community Treatment: A Latent Class Analysis	13
Problematic Sexual Behavior in Children: The Influence of Transgressions of Interpersonal Boundaries and Family Adversity Across Generations	11
Violent Partners or a Specific Class of Offenders? A Criminal Career Approach to Understanding Men Involved in Intimate Partner Sexual Violence	10
The Ripple Effects of Post-Conviction Traumatic Stress in People Required to Register as Sex Offenders and their Families	10
MeToo and Sexual Violence Among Women in Zambia	9
Static-99R Norms and Cross-Cultural Validity for Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Men Convicted of Sexual Offences	8
Atypical Sexual Interests in Compulsive Sexual Behavior: Results From a Phallometric Study	8
Who’s at the Bottom of the Hiring List? Exploring the Compounding Effects of Applicant Race and Offense History on Employability	7
Sexism, Moral Disengagement, and Dark Triad Traits on Perpetrators of Sexual Violence Against Women and Community Men	7
Addressing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Research	7
Online Sexual Offending Against Children: Recidivism Rates and Predictors	7
Understanding Sexual Aggression in UK Male University Students: An Empirical Assessment of Prevalence and Psychological Risk Factors	7
Measuring Collateral Consequences Among Individuals Registered for a Sexual Offense: Development of the Sexual Offender Collateral Consequences Measure	7
Emotional Congruence with Children: An Empirical Examination of Different Models in Men with a History of Sexually Offending Against Children	7
Balancing Political and Criminogenic Needs: Evaluating the New Zealand Department of Corrections’ Response to Men Assessed With a Below Average Risk for Sexual Recidivism	7
Older Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses: A Literature Review	6
The Relation Between Sexual Fantasies and Offense-Supportive Cognitions in People Convicted of Sexual Offenses: A Preliminary Study	6
The Impact of Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability Information on General Public Perceptions of a Person Convicted of a Child Sex Offence	6
Associations Between Self-Regulation, Experiences of Childhood Adversity, and Problematic Sexual and Aggressive Behaviors	6
The Influence of Race on Detected and Undetected Sexual Offense Histories: A Comparison of White and Black Men Committed as Sexually Violent Persons	5
Correspondence of Child Age and Gender Distribution in Child Sexual Exploitation Material and Other Child Content With Age and Gender of Child Sexual Assault Victims	5
Men’s Narratives of Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in Urban Mwanza, Northwestern Tanzania	5

Automaticity of Early Sexual Attention: An Event-Related Potential Study	5
The Relevance of Hypersexuality and Impulsivity in Different Groups of Treatment-Seekers With and Without (Exclusive) Pedophilia	5
Convergent and Divergent Validity of the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) in a Clinical Sample From California	5
Protectors of Society: Understanding the Impact of Courtesy Stigma on the Experiences of Volunteers Working With Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offences	5
Modus Operandi in Sexual Assaults of Female Strangers Does Not Change Over Time	5
Development and Validation of the Beliefs About Revenge Pornography Questionnaire	5
Comparison of Community and Expert Samples in the Perceived Risk of Individuals Who Have Sexually Offended	4
Predictors of Individual and Interpersonal Adjustment Among Non-offending Partners of Individuals With Histories of Sexual Offenses	4
Is Stopping of Testosterone-Lowering Medication in Men Convicted of Sexual Offenses Associated With an Increase in Recidivism Risk?	4
Online Communities for Child-Attracted Persons as Informal Mental Health Care: Exploring Self-Reported Wellbeing Outcomes	4
Examining Sexual Crime Severity in China: A General-Specific Model on Sex Offending Against Adults	4
Sexual Misconduct: What Does a 20-Year Review of Cases in Quebec Reveal about the Characteristics of Professionals, Victims, and the Disciplinary Process?	4
Understanding the Latent Structure of Dynamic Risk: Seeking Empirical Constraints on Theory Development Using the VRS-SO and the Theory of Dynamic Risk	3
The Propensity for Deviant Sexual Behavior in the General Population: An Empirical Examination of the Motivation-Facilitation Model	3
Understanding the Risk of Sexual Reoffending in Adult Men: A Network-Based Model	3
Motives for Sex and Sexual Perpetration in College Men: An Exploratory Study	3
Erotic Feelings Towards Patients in the Psychotherapy Session: Investigating Their Relationship With the Characteristics of the Therapist, the Patient, and the Treatment	3
Managing Romantic and Sexual Feelings Towards Clients in the Psychotherapy Room in Flanders (Belgium)	3
Dynamic Individual Risk Networks: Personalized Network Modelling Based on Experience Sampling Data	3
The Experience of Working With Individuals Who Sexually Offend	3
Perpetration-Focused Prevention: The Perceptions of Victim-Survivors	3
Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation Dynamics: Development and Validation of a Taxonomy of Recruitment and Domination Strategies	3
A Descriptive Model of Voyeuristic Behavior	3
Predicting Risk of Reoffending in Persons with Child Sexual Exploitation Material Offense Histories: The Use of Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool in a Scottish Population	3
California Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Evaluations in the Field: Static-99R and Diagnostic Field Reliability	3
A Grounded Theory Model of Relationship Decision-Making in Non-Offending Partners of Individuals Accused of Sexual Offending	3
Are Sex Offending Allegations Viewed Differently? Exploring the Effect of Offense Type and Conviction Status on Criminal Stigmatization	3
Exploring Risk for Sexual Recidivism and Treatment Responsivity Through the Lens of Early Trauma	2
Realization, Self-View, and Disclosure of Pedophilia: A Content Analysis of Online Posts	2
Motivational and Cognitive Factors in Pathways to Offending Amongst Women who Have Sexually Offended	2
“Falling Through the Cracks”: A Retrospective Exploration of the Barriers to Help-Seeking Among Men Convicted of Sexual Crimes	2
A Preliminary Analysis of Sexual Recidivism and Predictive Validity of the Static-99R in Men Discharged From State Hospitals Pursuant to California’s Sexually Violent Predator Act	2
Improving Our Risk Communication: Standardized Risk Levels for Brief Assessment of Recidivism Risk-2002R	2
Serious Mental Illness and Sexual Offending in Forensic Psychiatric Patients	2
Treatment Satisfaction in a Civil Commitment Facility for Sexually Violent Persons	2
Theories on the Etiology of Deviant Sexual Interests: A Systematic Review	2
Expert Versus Novice: Criminal Expertise in Sexual Burglary and Sexual Robbery	2
The Predictive Validity of the Revised Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI-2)	2
Do Sanctions Affect Undetected Sexual Offending?	2
Psychopathic Personality as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Atypical Sexuality and Sexual Coercion Proclivity in the General Population	2
Neighborhood-Level Predictors of Sexual Violence Across Intimate Partner and Non-Intimate Partner Relationships: A Case–Control Study	2
Intellectual Ability and Sexual Recidivism Risk Assessment: Comparing Predictive Accuracy in an Incarcerated U.S. Sample	2
“It was in Control of Me”: Notions of Addiction and Online Child Sexual Exploitation Material Offending	1
Sexual Offending: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Shame, and Self-Compassion Explain the Variance in Self-Harm and Harm Towards Others?	1
Relationships Between Early Maladaptive Schemas and Emotional States in Individuals With Sexual Convictions	1
Other Specified Paraphilic Disorder: Patterns of Use in Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations	1
Predictive Validity of Static-99R Among 8,207 Men Convicted of Sexual Crimes in South Korea: A Prospective Field Study	1
Looping Disruption: A Relational Mechanism Enhancing Treatment Readiness among Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offending?	1
Pedohebephilia and Perceived Non-coercive Childhood Sexual Experiences: Two Non-matched Case-Control Studies	1
The Roles of Empathy and Theory of Mind in Sexual Violence Perpetration: An Integrated Social Information Processing Framework	1

Differentiating Between Sexual Offending and Violent Non-sexual Offending in Men With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Using Machine Learning	1
Enter, Stage Right	1
Understanding Social Judgments of and Proclivities to Commit Upskirting	1
Same Score, Different Audience, Different Message: Perceptions of Sex Offense Risk Depend on Static-99R Risk Level and Personality Factors of the Recipient	1
Similar Age Preference but Different Attentional Control in Mandatory Hospitalized Individuals who Have Committed Sexual Offenses Against Children and Non-hospitalized Individuals With Self-Reported S	1
“It’s a Slippery Slope”: Antecedents of Female-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse of Adolescents in Australian Educational Settings	1
Inadequate Coping Strategies of Men who Have Committed Sexual Aggression Against Women: A Study of Their Developmental Antecedents	1
Explaining Male Sex Offender Recidivism: Accounting for Differences in Correctional Supervision	1
Does No Mean No? Situational and Dispositional Factors Influence Emerging Adult Men’s Intentions to Use Assault Tactics in Response to Women’s Sexual Refusal During Hookups	1
Paraphilic Interests Versus Behaviors: Factors that Distinguish Individuals Who Act on Paraphilic Interests From Individuals Who Refrain	1
Long Term Recidivism Rates Among Individuals at High Risk to Sexually Reoffend	1
General Criminal Dynamic Risk and Strength Factors Predict Short-Term General Recidivism Outcomes Among People Convicted of Sexual Crime During Community Supervision	1
Factor Analysis With Unusual Sexual Interests: A Replication Study in a Representative Population Sample	1
The Prevalence of Sexual Grooming Behaviors in a Large Sample of Clergy	1
Investigating Trauma Symptomology as a Mediator of the Relationships Between Childhood Maltreatment and Sexual and Non-Sexual Delinquency	1
The Risk, Need, and Responsivity Relevance of Working Alliance in a Sexual Offense Treatment Program: Its Intersection With Psychopathy, Diversity, and Treatment Change	1
“I Know It’s Hard to Believe, But the Monster Who Abused Me is My Mother:” Experiences of Being Sexually Abused as a Child by a Female	1
Moderators of Sexual Recidivism as Indicator of Treatment Effectiveness in Persons With Sexual Offense Histories: An Updated Meta-analysis	1
A Qualitative Examination of School Counselors’ Experiences of Sextortion Cases of Female Students in Israel	1
Nonstranger and Stranger Sexual Homicides in Mainland China: Comparing the Modus Operandi of Male Sexual Murderers	1
Open Versus Closed Group Treatment of Men with a History of Sexual Offenses	1