Sex Offenders Seto

In conclusion to Seto’s chapter, many sex offenders against children have histories of nonsexual offenses and non-sexually antisocial behaviors, and measures of antisocially are good predictors of recidivism among this group of offenders. These consistent findings indicate that theories of sexual offending against children could gain a great deal from drawing on advances made in developmental criminology, including the important distinction between developmental trajectories and their different etiologies and prognoses (2006). A number of ostensibly unique factors were suggested by Seto including social incompetence, conventional sexual experiences, childhood sexual abuse, and psychopathology. Pedophilia also clearly distinguishes sex offenders