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KMID : 0614420140420010005
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Mental Health & Social Work
2014 Volume.42 No. 1 p.5 ~ p.30
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Explorative Study of Influencing Factors on Addiction to Recidivism in Sexual Offenders
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Kim Eun-Hye
Lee Ju-Kyung
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Abstract
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The prevalence of Sexual Offenders in the Criminal Justice System has increased over the past several years and most sexual offender has returned to the community without any intervention to prevent recidivism. Many researches shown that a substantial proportion of sex offenders may have psychiatric problems, such as a Sexual compulsivity, Alcohol and Substance use disorders, Mood disorders and Personality disorders. However, There is no domestic empirical evidence that addiction is contribute to sexual offender recidivism. This study explores the role of addiction between sexual offender recidivism. The sample 212 sex offenders who were requested criminal psychiatric evaluation on National Forensic Hospital they were recruited using a convenient sampling method. Sexual Addiction, Alcohol Addiction and Drug Addiction were evaluated by SAST-R, AUDIT and B-DAST. Logistic regression analysis was employed to analyze data. The result show that 55 of 215 subjects(25.9%) has sexual recidivism and they were used violence when commits the sexual assault(33.3%). Offenders with a Sexual addiction were more likely to recidivism. Suggestion for future research and impli-cation for prevention and intervention efforts were also discussed.
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KEYWORD
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Sexual addiction, Sexual offense, Recidivism, SAST-R
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