Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Veneziano, Carol
• Veneziano, Louis
• LeGrand, Scott
• Richards, Linda

Titel

Neuropsychological Executive Functions of Adolescent Sex Offenders and Nonsex Offenders

Ist Teil von

• Perceptual and motor skills, 2004-04, Vol.98 (2), p.661-674

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A growing body of research now suggests that a substantial number of criminal offenders display neuropsychological deficits, especially frontal-executive dysfunctions. The present study investigated the possibility of similar deficits by comparing the performance of 60 adolescent sex offenders court-ordered to a residential treatment facility with the performance of 60 nonsexual delinquent offenders matched on several pertinent sociodemographic characteristics and scores on four neuropsychological tests: (1) the Trail Making Test, (2) the Controlled Oral Word Association test of the Multilingual Aphasia Examination, (3) the Tower of London, and (4) the Wisconsin Card-sorting Test. Analysis indicated a pattern of frontal-executive dysfunction in a subset of both groups of offenders; this pattern has both theoretical and treatment implications.